Alcea apterocarpa
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Alcea |
| Species: | A. apterocarpa
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| Alcea apterocarpa (Fenzl) Boiss.[1]
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Synonym list
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Alcea apterocarpa is a tall hollyhock plant native from Turkey to Sinai.
Description
A tall (to 2 m) hollyhock, stem medium thickness (15 mm), distinctive for its rather woolly stems, many-lobed stem leaves (5-9 lobes) and large flowers (petals to 65 mm, narrow, to 25 mm wide, pink, violet or white) on long flower stalks (2-60 mm). Found at roadsides, fields, rocky slopes, calcareous, steppe, maquis, 10-2000 m.
Epicalyx long (>50% calyx), fruit segments wingless, ±conspicuously rugose, stellate-pilose hairy, pilose hairy on lateral side.
To clearly distinguish from A. biennis, the fruits are needed (A. biennis has winged fruit segments).[2][3][4]
Distribution
Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Alcea apterocarpa". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ "The taxonomic revision of Alcea and Althaea (Malvaceae) in Turkey, 2011 by Mehmet Erkan Uzunhisarcikli, Mecit Vural".
- JSTOR 2401577. (p. 412, n. 2)
- ^ George E Post. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai ed. 2 vol. 1. (p. 248 n. 12)
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