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 Major 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 malvaea seed weevillarva Foodplant / internal feeder /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowfruitMajor 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 rufirostrea seed weevillarva Foodplant / internal feeder /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowfruit 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 fuscicornisa mallow flea beetlelarva Foodplant / gall /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowleaf 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 fuscicornisa mallow flea beetleimago Foodplant / gall /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowleaf 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 fuscipesmallow flea beetlelarva Foodplant / gall /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowleaf 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 fuscipesmallow flea beetleimago Foodplant / gall /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowleaf imago causes gall of leaf
leaf leaf is spotted by few, mainly epiphyllous, tawny brown then black pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph UK/Ireland 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 heterochroaa coelomycetefew, mainly epiphyllous, tawny brown then blackpycnidiumSeptoria coelomycetous anamorph Foodplant / spot causerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowleaf 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 UK/Ireland 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 malvicolaa coelomycetescatteredpycnidiumAscochyta coelomycetous anamorph Foodplant / spot causerUK and/or Eire /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowliveleaf (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 malvacearummallow and hollyhock rust, mallow rustpulvinate, hypophylloustelium Foodplant / gall /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowliveleaf (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 malvacearummallow and hollyhock rust, mallow rustpulvinatetelium Foodplant / parasite /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowlivepetiole (4-11)pulvinate telium parasitises live petiole
stem stem is foodplant of Foreign 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 pulverulentusa weevil Foodplant / feeds onForeign /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowstem feeds on stem
stem stem may contain larva Major 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 aeneuma seed weevillarva Foodplant / internal feeder /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowstemMajor larva feeds within stem
stem stem may contain larva Major 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 radiolusa seed weevillarva Foodplant / internal feeder /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowstemMajor larva feeds within stem
stem stem is foodplant of gregarious, covered by blackened epidermis, finally erumpent by a slit pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Foreign 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 malvacearuma coelomycetegregarious, covered by blackened epidermis, finally erumpent by a slitpycnidiumPhomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Foodplant / feeds onForeign /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowstem 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 malvacearummallow and hollyhock rust, mallow rustpulvinatetelium Foodplant / gall /Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva sylvestris/Malva sylvestriscommon mallowlivestem (4-11)pulvinate telium causes gall of live stem

Author & YearTitleSource
Bullock, J.A., 1992Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995Fungi of the South East England383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Fox, R.T.V., 1995Fungal foes in your garden no 29: Mallow and Hollyhock rustMycologist Vol 09 (3): 129.
Grove, W.B., 1935British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidiaVol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Morris, M.G., 1990Orthocerous WeevilsHandbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5 Part 16, 108pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Morris, M.G., 2002True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to SmicronychinaeHandbooks 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:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesMalva sylvestris (Common Mallow)
GenusMalva (mallows)
FamilyMALVACEAE (mallows & limes)
OrderMALVALES (mallows, limes, daphnes and rockroses)
SubclassEU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (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:

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

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