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]

References

  1. ^ a b Plants of the World Online (with map)
  2. ^ "The taxonomic revision of Alcea and Althaea (Malvaceae) in Turkey, 2011 by Mehmet Erkan Uzunhisarcikli, Mecit Vural".
  3. ^ P H Davis. Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 2.