| Alcea apterocarpa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Alcea |
| Species: | A. apterocarpa |
| Binomial name | |
| Alcea apterocarpa (Fenzl) Boiss. [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
Synonym list
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Alcea apterocarpa is a tall hollyhock plant native to Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, the Sinai, and Turkey. [1]
Alcea apterocarpa is a tall (up to 2 m (6.6 ft)) hollyhock with 15 mm (0.59 in) thick stems. It is distinctive for its woolly stems, many-lobed stem leaves (5–9 lobes) and large flowers. The flowers have pink, violet or white petals. It is typically found at roadsides, fields, rocky slopes, calcareous ground, and steppes.
It has a long epicalyx, its fruit segments are wingless and rugose. Its stellate-pilose are hairy.
It is similar in appearance to Alcea biennis , but A. biennis has winged fruit segments whereas Alcea apterocarpa does not. [2] [3] [4]
Alcea is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. They are native to Asia and Europe. The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the streambank wild hollyhock, belongs to a different genus.
Oenothera biennis, the common evening-primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to eastern and central North America, from Newfoundland west to Alberta, southeast to Florida, and southwest to Texas, and widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate and subtropical regions. Evening primrose oil is produced from the plant.
Malva moschata, the musk mallow or musk-mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland, and east to southern Russia and Turkey. Growing to 60 cm (24 in) tall, it is a herbaceous perennial with hairy stems and foliage, and pink saucer-shaped flowers in summer.
Alcea rosea, the common hollyhock, is an ornamental dicot flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It was imported into Europe from southwestern China during, or possibly before, the 15th century. William Turner, a herbalist of the time, gave it the name "holyoke" from which the English name derives.
Malva alcea is a plant in the mallow family native to southwestern, central and eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to southern Sweden and east to Russia and Turkey.
Malva sylvestris is a species of the mallow genus Malva in the family of Malvaceae and is considered to be the type species for the genus. Known as common mallow to English-speaking Europeans, it acquired the common names of cheeses, high mallow and tall mallow as it migrated from its native home in Western Europe, North Africa and Asia through the English-speaking world.
Artemisia biennis is a species of sagebrush known by the common name biennial wormwood. It is a common and widely distributed weed, so well established in many places that its region of origin is difficult to ascertain. This species is most likely native to northwestern North America and naturalized in Western Europe, and eastern and southern North America.
Salvia palaestina is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide area including Palestine, and is also native to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, the Sinai peninsula and northeastern Egypt. It was named and described by George Bentham in 1835, with the specific epithet (palaestina) referring to its geographical distribution "in Palæstinæ montibus inter Gaza et Jerusalem", or the mountains between Gaza and Jerusalem.
Alcea setosa, the bristly hollyhock, is an ornamental plant in the family Malvaceae.
Iris palaestina is a species in the genus Iris in the subgenus Scorpiris. It is a bulbous perennial from Asia, including the Palestine region, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. It has long, narrow, strap-like leaves, and a short stem. The early blooming, fragrant flowers are greenish-grey/white or yellow-white.
Hypericum lanuginosum, or downy St. John's wort, is a perennial herb, a flowering plant in the St. John's wort family Hypericaceae.
Euphorbia hierosolymitana is a shrubby plant species with two varieties.
Juncus fontanesii, also known as Desfontaines' rush, is a species of rush in the family Juncaceae.
Juncus littoralis is a species of rush in the family Juncaceae known as coastal rush; it has no subspecies.
Malvella sherardiana, or Sherard's malvella, is a perennial plant native to Spain and from Greece to Crimea, southeastward to Iran, the only old world species in the genus Malvella.
Alcea digitata, the fingered hollyhock, is a tall hollyhock with large flowers native to the Middle East.
Malva unguiculata, the bryony-leaved tree-mallow, is a very tall perennial tree-mallow with large pink flowers native to the East Mediterranean.
Alcea remotiflora is a species of hollyhock plant native from Turkey to Iran.
Alcea heldreichii is a hollyhock plant native to southwestern Europe and Turkey.
Alcea striata, the desert hollyhock, is a tall hollyhock plant native between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It is found in rocky limestone slopes, fields, roadsides, scrub, and deserts, in the elevations 0–1200 m. It can be found in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, and Turkey.
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