Bombacoideae

taxobox
name = Malvoideae

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image_caption = Cortex of "Ceiba pentandra", a member of Bombacoideae
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Malvales
familia = Malvaceae
subfamilia = Bombacoideae
subfamilia_authority = Burnett, 1835
subdivision_ranks = Generasee text|

Herbaceous or woody plants; leaves alternate,commonly palmately lobed, with small and caducous stipuules; hermaphrodite, actinomorphic flowers; calyx of 5 sepal united at the base, accompanied frequently by an epicalyx (involucel); corolla of 5 free petals; androecium of numerous stamens, typically with filaments fused in a staminal tube (column) that surrounds the styles; pollen smooth; ovary superior and pluricarpellate; fruits schizocarpous or capsular.

*Adansonia
**Adansonia digitata baobab.
*Aguiaria
*Bernoullia
*Bombax; secretes sweet nectar, around the thorns, to feed colonies of wasps that drive away the predators
*Camptostemon
*Catostemna
*Cavanillesia
*Ceiba
**Ceiba pentandra; secretes sweet nectar, around the thorns, to feed colonies of wasps that drive away the predators
*Chiranthodendron
*Eriotheca
*Fremontodendron
*Gyranthera
*Huberodendron
*Matisia
*Neobuchia
*Ochroma
**Ochroma lagopus; balsa
*Pachira
*Patinoa
*Pentaplaris
*Phragmotheca
*Pseudobombax
*Quararibea
*Scleronema
*Septotheca
*Spirotheca

"Camptostemon" and "Pentaplaris" might more appropriately be placed in Malvoideae as might the tribe Matisieae ("Matisia", "Phragmotheca" and "Quararibea").

Relationship to Bombacaceae

Some taxa in this subfamily were previously grouped under the now-obsolete family Bombacaceae as recent phylogenetic research has shown that Bombacaceae as traditionally circumscribed (including tribe Durioneae) is not a monophyletic group.