Alcea

Accepted species 84 Documented here 6 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 84 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Alcea rosea L. 604 documented
Alcea rugosa Alef. 146 documented
Alcea biennis Winterl 8 documented
Alcea nudiflora (Lindl.) Boiss. 4 documented
Alcea acaulis (Cav.) Alef. 3 documented
Alcea setosa (Boiss.) Alef. 3 documented
Alcea abchazica Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea afghanica I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea angulata (Freyn) Freyn & Sint. ex Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea angulata Freyn & Sint. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea antoninae Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea apterocarpa (Fenzl) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea arbelensis Boiss. & Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea assadii Pakravan 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea aucheri (Boiss.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea baldshuanica (Bornm.) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea calvertii (Boiss.) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea chrysantha (Sam.) Zohary 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea damascena (Mouterde) Mouterde 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea denudata Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea digitata (Boiss.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea dissecta (Baker f.) Zohary 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea djahromi Parsa 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea excubita Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea fasciculiflora Zohary 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea ficifolia L. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea flavovirens (Boiss. & Buhse) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea freyniana Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea froloviana (Litv.) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea galilaea Zohary 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea ghahremanii Pakravan & Assadi 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea gorganica (Rech.f., Aellen & Esfand.) Zohary 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea heldreichii Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea hohenackeri Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea hyrcana (Grossh.) Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea ilamica Pakravan 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea iranshahrii Pakravan, Ghahr. & Assadi 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea karakalensis Freyn 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea karsiana (Bordz.) Litv. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea koelzii I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea kopetdaghensis Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea kuhsanguia Parsa 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea kurdica (Schltdl.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea kusariensis (Iljin ex Grossh.) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea lasiocalycina Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea lavateriflora Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea lenkoranica Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea litvinovii (Iljin) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea loftusii (Baker f.) Zohary 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea longipedicellata I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea mazandaranica Pakravan & Ghahr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea mosulensis I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea mozaffarianii Ghahr., Pakravan & Assadi 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea nikitinii Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea nudicaulis (Lindl.) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea peduncularis Boiss. & Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea pisidica Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea popovii Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea rechingeri (Zohary) I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea remotiflora (Boiss. & Heldr.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea rhyticarpa (Trautv.) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea rosulata I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea rufescens Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea scabridula I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea schirazana Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea semnanica Pakravan 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea sophiae Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea sosnovskyi Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea sotudehi Parsa 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea striata Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea sulphurea (Boiss. & Hohen.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea sycophylla Iljin & Nikitin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea tabrisiana (Boiss. & Buhse) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea talassica Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea tarica Pakravan & Ghahr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea teheranica Parsa 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea tholozani Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea transcaucasica (Iljin ex Grossh.) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea turcomanica Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea turkeviczii Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea vameghi Parsa 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea wilhelminae I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea woronowii (Iljin ex Grossh.) Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Alcea xanthochlora I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.