Malvales

Malvales is an order of eudicotyledons belonging to the clade Malvids that is characterized by having hypogynous flowers, generally dialipétalas, with fused carpels. Malvales are characterized by having generally palmate-veined leaves, more or less trimmed and sometimes compound (fingered), with an indument frequently made up of stellate hairs. They have free or welded petals at the base, contorted pre-flowering, and a clear tendency to polystemonia is observed (the number of stamens is greater than the 10 that the most primitive species have), with the stamens having a marked tendency to weld together at their ends. filaments, coming to form in some families a column (staminal tube) that surrounds the style.