Malvella sherardiana, or Sherard's malvella,[2] is a perennial plant native to Spain and from Greece to Crimea, southeastward to Iran, the only old world species in the genus Malvella.

The plant is a perennial found in fields and waste places (0-1000 m) consisting of many ground-spreading stems, with many round long-stalked leaves (to 50 mm wide) with crinkly edges and sizeable gap at base, and small long-stalked mallow-like solitary pink flowers (10 mm diam), each with five unnotched petals and many anthers.

All parts are densely short-hairy with star-like (stellate) hairs.

The epicalyx at the base of the calyx is inconspicuous, composed of 3 very small (1-2 mm) filamenty parts.

[3] [4] [5] [6] Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Greece, Iran, Iraq, Crimea, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Spain, Transcaucasus, Turkey.