Malvales's the name of an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, it includes about 6000 species within nine families. The order's placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots. The plants are mostly shrubs and trees; most of its families have a cosmopolitan distribution in the tropics and subtropics with limited expansion into temperate regions. An interesting distribution occurs in Madagascar, where there're three endemic families of Malvales (Sphaerosepalace… (More on Malvales)