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The genus Alcea is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Alcea

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Alcea abchazica Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea acaulis (Cav.) Alef.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea afghanica Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea africana (Lam. ex G.Don) Lour.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea angulata Freyn & Sint.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea antoninae Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea apterocarpa Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea arbelensis Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea assadii Pakravan	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea baldshuanica (Bornm.) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea calvertii (Boiss.) Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea digitata Alef.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea dissecta (Baker f.) Zohary	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea djahromi Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea excubita Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea fasciculiflora Zohary	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea flavovirens (Boiss. & Buhse) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea freyniana Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea froloviana (Litw.) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea galilaea Zohary	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea ghahremanii Pakravan & Assadi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea gorganica (Rech.f., Aellen & Esfand.) Zohary	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea grossheimii Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea guestii Zohary	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea heldreichii (Boiss.) Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea hohenackeri Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea hyrcana Grossh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea ilamica Pakravan	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea iranshahrii Pakravan, Ghahr. & Assadi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea karakalensis Freyn	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea karsiana (Bordz.) Litv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea kazerouni Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea koelzii Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea kopetdaghensis Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea kuhsanguia Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea kurdica Alef.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea kusjariensis (Iljin ex Grossh.) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea lavateriflora (DC.) Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea leiocarpa (Sam. ex Rech.f.) Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea lenkoranica Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea litvinovii (Iljin) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea longipedicellata Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea mazandaranica Pakravan & Ghahr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea mosulensis Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea mozaffarianii Ghahr. & Pakravan & Assadi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea nikitinii Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea nudicaulis (Lindl.) Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea nudiflora (Lindl.) Boiss.	Accepted		TRO
Alcea pallida (Willd.) Waldst. & Kit.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea peduncularis Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea popovii Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea rechingeri (Zohary) Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea remotiflora (Boiss. & Heldr.) Alef.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea rhyticarpa (Trautv.) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea rosea L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea rosulata Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea rugosa Alef.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea sachsachanica Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea scabridula Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea semnanica Pakravan	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea setosa (Boiss.) Alef.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea sophiae Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea sosnovskyi Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea sotudehi Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea striata Alef.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea sycophylla Iljin & V.V.Nikitin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea tabrisiana Boiss. & Buhse	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea talassica Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea tarica Pakravan & Ghahr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea teheranica Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea transcaucasica (Iljin ex Grossh.) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea turcomanica Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea turkeviczii Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea vameghii Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea wilhelminae Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea woronowii (Iljin ex Grossh.) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alcea xanthochlora Riedl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 119 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Alcea. Of these 77 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 16 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Alcea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 119 species names for the genus Alcea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	77	64.7%
◕	Synonym	29	24.4%
◕	Unplaced	8	6.7%
◕	Unassessed	5	4.2%

All names

The status of the 135 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Alcea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	85	63.0%
◕	Synonym	37	27.4%
◕	Unplaced	8	5.9%
◕	Unassessed	5	3.7%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 119 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Alcea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	77	27	0	0	104	87.4%
	Low confidence	0	2	8	5	15	12.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Alcea, are as follows: