Bastardiastrum

{{short description|Genus of Malvaceae plants}}

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|taxon = Bastardiastrum

|authority = (Rose) D.M.BatesGentes Herbarum 11: 318 (1978)

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|synonyms = *Wissadula sect. Bastardiastrum Rose

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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.{{cite book |title=The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales |volume=V |date=2013 |last1=Bayer |first1=Clemens |last2=Kubitzki |first2=Klaus |isbn=9783662072554 |pages=293–294 |publisher=Springer }}