X-rays from a Central “Exhaust Vent” of the Galactic Center Chimney
Family malvacea
1. FAMILY MALVACEAE
Malvaceae is commonly known as the mallow
family
244 genera with almost 4225 specie
Member:
Gossypium herbaceum : asiatic
cotton
Abelmoschus esculentus :
mushkdana
Althaea rosea : gulekhera
Abutilon asiaticum : kanghi
2. Vegetative characters
• Habitat: herbs, shrubs , trees
mucilaginous sap
• Stem: Herbaceous or woody(erect,
aerial),branched, cylinderical
• Leaves: simple,alternate ,round or
palmately divided, stipulate
• Root: Branched tap root system
3. Distinguishing characters:
• Habit : plants herb,shrubs or tree with stellate hairs and
mucilage juice
• Leaves : alternate, stipulate
• Flower: regular, hermaphrodite, pentamerous with an
epicalyx
• Calyx: velvate,free or united
• Corolla : free,twisted or imbricate
• Stamens: indefinite, monadelphous, anthers monothecous
(1 celled)
• Carples: 1_ many ,often 5 superior multilocular
• Fruit : a capsule or schizocarpic
4. Floral characters
• Inflorescence: Cymose, rarely racemose
• Flower: pedicellate,bracteolate, actinomorphic
hermaphrodite, complete, hypogynous
• Fruit: Loculicidal capsule or schizocarpict
• Seed: not endospermic, buried in testa
• Calyx: 5 gamosepalous, seploid, inferior
• Corolla: 5 polypetalous,united to staminal tube
at base inferior
• Androecium: indefinite,arranged on staminal
tube, monadelphous, epipetalous
• Gynoecium: 5 indefinite,polycarpellary,
syncarpous,ovary , superior, multilocular
