Malvoideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, which includes in the minimum the genus Malva

Malva

Malva is a genus of about 25–30 species of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow. The genus is widespread throughout the temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of...

. It was first used by Burnett in 1835, but was not much used until recently, where, within the framework of the APG System

APG system

The APG system of plant classification is the first, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was superseded in 2003 by a revision, the APG II system, and then in 2009 by a further...

, which unites the families Malvaceae

Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

, Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae is a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae included within Malvales order. As is true for any botanical name, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view...

, Sterculiaceae

Sterculiaceae

Sterculiaceae is a botanical name for a group of flowering plants at the rank of family, which is now considered obsolete. As is true for any botanical name, the circumscription, status and placement of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view...

 and Tiliaceae

Tiliaceae

Tiliaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family is not part of APG II, but it is found all through the botanical literature and remains prominently listed by nomenclatural databases such as IPNI....

 of the Cronquist system

Cronquist system

The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants. It was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants .Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two...

, the aggregate family Malvaceae is divided into 9 subfamiles, including Malvoideae.

The Malvoideae of Kubitzki and Bayer

Kubitzki system

A system of plant taxonomy, the Kubitzki system is the product of an ongoing survey of vascular plants, entitled The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants....

 includes 4 tribes - Malveae, Gossypieae, Hibisceae and Kydieae - and two unplaced genera - Jumelleanthus and Howittia

Howittia

Howittia is a plant genus that contains just one species, Howittia trilocularis , a shrub which is native to Australia.-Description:...

. Malveae includes the mallows and abutilons and allied genera. Gossypieae includes cotton and its allies. Hibisceae includes Hibiscus

Hibiscus

Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is quite large, containing several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world...

and allied genera.

Baum et al. have a wider concept (cladistically, all those plants more closely related to Malva sylvestris than to Bombax ceiba) of Malvoideae, which includes additionally the tribe Matisieae (three genera of Neotropical trees) and the genera Lagunaria

Lagunaria

Lagunaria is a monotypic genus in the family Malvaceae. It is an Australian plant endemic to Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and parts of coastal Queensland. It has been introduced to many parts of the world...

, Camptostemon, Pentaplaris

Pentaplaris

Pentaplaris is a genus of flowering plant in the Tiliaceae family.It contains the following species:* Pentaplaris davidsmithii* Pentaplaris doroteae* Pentaplaris huaoranica...

and Uladendron.

Genera include:

• Alcea
• Horsfordia
  Horsfordia
  Horsfordia is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family known commonly as velvetmallows. There are four species which are native to Mexico and the southwestern United States...
  
  
• Palaua
  Palaua (plant)
  Palaua is a genus of malvaceous plants native to the Andes. It shares with Malope and Kitaibelia the property of possessing capitate schizocarps, and was formerly classified with them in a subfamily Malopoideae or tribe Malopeae. It is now considered to be more closely related to Sphaeralcea, and...