Malva nicaeensis

Annual or biennial, stems prostrate or procumbent, to c. 50 cm long. Leaves orbicular to reniform, cordate at base, c. 1–10 cm long and wide, shallowly 5-lobed, margins crenate or toothed, surfaces with scattered to dense hairs, usually simple above, some forked or stellate below. Epicalyx-lobes elliptic, 2–4 mm long, attached in lower third of calyx; calyx-lobes obtuse, divided to c. midway or a little below, not or barely exceeding epicalyx, slightly enlarged and incurved in fruit; petals 6–12 mm long, pink to bluish. Fruit 5–8 mm diam., mericarps c. 10, strongly reticulate, adjacent margins ± smooth, glabrous. Flowers Oct.–Jun.