David Martin Bates

Anisodontea capensis, known as African mallow, dwarf hibiscus, Cape mallow and false mallow, is a species in the tribe Malveae in the family Malvaceae that is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.

Allowissadula is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae. They are known commonly as false Indianmallows. They are native to Mexico and the south-central United States (Texas and New Mexico). Plants of the genus are subshrubs with hairy foliage and flowers each having a calyx six to fourteen millimeters in length, five styles and five carpels. The fruit is a schizocarp.

Allosidastrum is a New World genus comprising four species in the tribe Malveae in the family Malvaceae. Members of the genus are woody, bearing ovate leaves with long petioles. Flowers - borne without calyculi - bear small, basally rounded calyxes of a length greater than that of their pedicels and whitish or palely yellow petals. Gynoeciums each consist of five to nine carpels and mature into fruits that yield one seed for each of their carpels.

Kearnemalvastrum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. Its native range is Mexico to Colombia. It is also found in the countries of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. The genus name of Kearnemalvastrum is in honour of Thomas Henry Kearney (1874–1956), an American botanist and agronomist known for his work on cotton and date palm breeding, plant taxonomy, and also the flora of Arizona. It was first described and published in Brittonia Vol.19 on page 229 in 1967. Known species, according to Kew: Kearnemalvastrum lacteum (Aiton) D.M.Bates Kearnemalvastrum

Bastardiastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae and is native to Mexico. They are shrubs or subshrubs with viscid (and usually malodorous) stems.

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Fryxellia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It contains only one species, Fryxellia pygmaea (Correll) D.M.Bates. Its native range is south-western Texas to north-eastern Mexico. The genus is named in honour of Paul Fryxell (1927–2011) an American botanist. The specific Latin epithet of pygmaea refers to pygmy or "small" in Greek. It was first described and published in Brittonia Vol.26 on page 95 in 1974.

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Anisodontea elegans is a species in the tribe Malveae in the family Malvaceae. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

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