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Australian Hollyhock photos
Family Name: Mallow (Malvaceae)

Scientific Name:Malva preissiana (syn. Malva australiana, Lavatera plebeia)
Australian Hollyhock plant
Australian Hollyhock plant
Photo: A J Brown

Other Common Names:
Native Hollyhock

Status:
Native to Australia.

Plant Description:
Erect perennial herbs to 4 m tall. Leaves on 10-15 mm stalks, broadly ovate to 20 cm long, 5-7 obtusely lobed with toothed or saw-like margins, both surfaces with spreading hairs.

Flowers clustered on stalks about 25 cm long. Petals lilac, pink or white. Fruit a schizocarp (a dry fruit made up of separate carpels or mericarps), 6-7 mm diameter, smooth or wrinkled with toothed margins.

Habitat:
Grasslands, roadsides, floodplains and adjacent water courses. Usually indicative of fresh-water environments, although it will grow on the margins of saline swamps and flats.
RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Mallee, Loddon Murray, Central and Northern, Wimmera, Western, GippslandS0, *S1W1, W2
*sometimes fringing saline environments

Australian Hollyhock photos

Fruit showing seed of Australian Hollyhock
Fruit showing seed of Australian Hollyhock
Photo: A J Brown
Australian Hollyhock plant
Australian Hollyhock plant
Photo: A J Brown

Flower of Australian Hollyhock
Flower of Australian Hollyhock
Photo: A J Brown

Flowering plant of Australian Hollyhock
Flowering plant of Australian Hollyhock
Photo: A J Brown

Leaf of Australian Hollyhock
Leaf of Australian Hollyhock
Photo: A J Brown

Australian Hollyhock flower
Australian Hollyhock flower
Photo: A J Brown

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