Alcea remotiflora
Alcea remotiflora | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Genus: | Alcea |
Species: | A. remotiflora |
Binomial name | |
Alcea remotiflora (Boiss. & Heldr.) Alef.[1] | |
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Alcea remotiflora is a species of hollyhock plant native from Turkey to Iran.
Description
A medium-sized (to 0.8 m) hollyhock with narrow stem (to 10 mm), notable for its 5-7-lobed stem leaves having end lobes very long, rather finger-like with rounded tip, compared to the shorter side lobes (base leaves however are shallow-lobed), the pink or white flowers not large (petals to 30 mm), pale at centre, in groups of 1–2 at leaf stalks. All parts densely velvety hairy with adpressed star-like hairs. Found in rocky places, in Turkey to 1800 m.
Epicalyx with many parts, small (<50% calyx), fruit segments wingless, shallowly furrowed, conspicuously rugose, pilose on lateral side. [2] [3]
Distribution
Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey.[1]
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