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Alcea
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
See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.
Statistics
The Plant List includes 163 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Alcea. Of these 77 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 18 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 163 species names for the genus Alcea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 77 | 47.2% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 73 | 44.8% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 13 | 8.0% |
All names
The status of the 181 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Alcea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 85 | 47.0% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 83 | 45.9% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 13 | 7.2% |
Of the species names,
- 1 are recorded as invalid
- 2 are recorded as illegitimate
The confidence with which the status of the 163 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 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 90.8% |
 |
Low confidence | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 9.2% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Alcea is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3.1% |
| WCSP (in review) | 76 | 72 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 158 | 96.9% |