I'm glad I could help!
The seeds are in a circle in the dried papery pod, similar to how a Hollyhock sets seeds. So when you pry apart the yellow papery outer part, you can see the brownish seeds inside, formed in a ring all stuck together.
Also I read this morning that Malva may rebloom if you cut down the flowering stalk to the base after it finishes. But maybe not if it's been successful at maturing some seeds.
Plants are kinky things and all they think about is sex and making babies!
So some plants, if the immature seeds and dead flowers are removed, you can trick them to think they didn't do a proper job of breeding so they try again.
It doesn't work on all plants though. :sad: But I've tried with Lupins and it worked. Well actually I only intended to cut off the finished Lupin flower stalks last year because I didn't want cross bred Lupins popping up everywhere. To my surprise they rebloomed. Will try on the Malva this year and see what happens!