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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Althaea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Althaea angulata Freyn	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea arborea (L.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO
Althaea armeniaca Ten.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea bertramii Post & Beauverd	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea cannabina L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea chrysantha Sam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea damascena Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea haussknechtii Baker f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea hiri Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea hirsuta L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea × litvinovii Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea loftusii Baker	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea longiflora Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea ludwigii L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea octaviae Evenari	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea officinalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea oppenheimii Ulbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Althaea villosa Blatt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 171 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Althaea. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Althaea. 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 171 species names for the genus Althaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	10.5%
◕	Synonym	109	63.7%
◕	Unplaced	23	13.5%
◕	Unassessed	21	12.3%

All names

The status of the 177 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Althaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	10.2%
◕	Synonym	115	65.0%
◕	Unplaced	23	13.0%
◕	Unassessed	21	11.9%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 171 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Althaea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	18	84	0	0	102	59.6%
	Low confidence	0	25	23	21	69	40.4%

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