Malva sylvestris L.
(Common Mallow)

Interactions where Malva sylvestris is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
fruit		fruit may contain larva			Malvapion malvae	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Malvapion malvae/	Malvapion malvae	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			fruit		Major			larva feeds within fruit
fruit		fruit may contain larva			Pseudapion rufirostre	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Pseudapion rufirostre/	Pseudapion rufirostre	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			fruit					larva feeds within fruit
leaf		leaf is galled by larva			Podagrica fuscicornis	a mallow flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Podagrica fuscicornis/	Podagrica fuscicornis	a mallow flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			leaf					larva causes gall of leaf
leaf		leaf is galled by imago			Podagrica fuscicornis	a mallow flea beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Podagrica fuscicornis/	Podagrica fuscicornis	a mallow flea beetle				imago	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			leaf					imago causes gall of leaf
leaf		leaf is galled by larva			Podagrica fuscipes	Mallow Flea Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Podagrica fuscipes/	Podagrica fuscipes	mallow flea beetle				larva	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			leaf					larva causes gall of leaf
leaf		leaf is galled by imago			Podagrica fuscipes	Mallow Flea Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Podagrica fuscipes/	Podagrica fuscipes	mallow flea beetle				imago	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			leaf					imago causes gall of leaf
leaf		leaf is spotted by few, mainly epiphyllous, tawny brown then black pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph			Septoria heterochroa	a coelomycete	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Septoria heterochroa/	Septoria heterochroa	a coelomycete		few, mainly epiphyllous, tawny brown then black	pycnidium	Septoria coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			leaf					few, mainly epiphyllous, tawny brown then black pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by scattered pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph			Ascochyta malvicola	a coelomycete	Pleosporales	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Ascochyta malvicola/	Ascochyta malvicola	a coelomycete		scattered	pycnidium	Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow		live	leaf				(9)	scattered pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is galled by pulvinate, hypophyllous telium			Puccinia malvacearum	Mallow and Hollyhock Rust, Mallow Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Fungal foes in your garden no 29: Mallow and Hollyhock rust, Fox, R.T.V., 1995 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia malvacearum/	Puccinia malvacearum	mallow and hollyhock rust, mallow rust		pulvinate, hypophyllous		telium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow		live	leaf				(4-11)	pulvinate, hypophyllous telium causes gall of live leaf
petiole (live)		live petiole is parasitised by pulvinate telium			Puccinia malvacearum	Mallow and Hollyhock Rust, Mallow Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Fungal foes in your garden no 29: Mallow and Hollyhock rust, Fox, R.T.V., 1995 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia malvacearum/	Puccinia malvacearum	mallow and hollyhock rust, mallow rust		pulvinate		telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow		live	petiole				(4-11)	pulvinate telium parasitises live petiole
stem		stem is foodplant of			Lixus pulverulentus	a weevil	Coleoptera: Curculionidae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Lixus pulverulentus/	Lixus pulverulentus	a weevil					Foodplant / feeds on		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			stem					feeds on stem
stem		stem may contain larva			Aspidapion aeneum	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Aspidapion aeneum/	Aspidapion aeneum	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			stem		Major			larva feeds within stem
stem		stem may contain larva			Aspidapion radiolus	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Aspidapion radiolus/	Aspidapion radiolus	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			stem		Major			larva feeds within stem
stem		stem is foodplant of gregarious, covered by blackened epidermis, finally erumpent by a slit pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph			Phomopsis malvacearum	a coelomycete	Diaporthales: Diaporthaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Diaporthaceae/Phomopsis malvacearum/	Phomopsis malvacearum	a coelomycete		gregarious, covered by blackened epidermis, finally erumpent by a slit	pycnidium	Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / feeds on		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow			stem					gregarious, covered by blackened epidermis, finally erumpent by a slit pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph feeds on stem
stem (live)		live stem is galled by pulvinate telium			Puccinia malvacearum	Mallow and Hollyhock Rust, Mallow Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Fungal foes in your garden no 29: Mallow and Hollyhock rust, Fox, R.T.V., 1995 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Puccinia malvacearum/	Puccinia malvacearum	mallow and hollyhock rust, mallow rust		pulvinate		telium	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/	Malva sylvestris	common mallow		live	stem				(4-11)	pulvinate telium causes gall of live stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Fox, R.T.V., 1995	Fungal foes in your garden no 29: Mallow and Hollyhock rust	Mycologist Vol 09 (3): 129.
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Morris, M.G., 1990	Orthocerous Weevils	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5 Part 16, 108pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Morris, M.G., 2002	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17b, 149pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Malva sylvestris (Common Mallow) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Malva
(mallows)

MALVACEAE
(mallows & limes)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Tall Woody Herbs
(tall woody herbs)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Malva sylvestris (Common Mallow)
Genus	Malva (mallows)
Family	MALVACEAE (mallows & limes)
Order	MALVALES (mallows, limes, daphnes and rockroses)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Malva sylvestris is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Malvaceae)
Tall Woody Herbs - tall woody herbs (via Malvaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Malva sylvestris (Common Mallow)

Malva sylvestris (Common Mallow) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Malva sylvestris (Common Mallow):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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