Althea stiff-haired , or Altea rough ( lat. Althaea hirsuta ) is a perennial herb , a species of the genus Althaea ( Althaea ) of the Malvaceae family ( Malvaceae ).
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Dissemination and ecology
The species range covers North Africa , central and southern Europe , Western and Central Asia [2] .
It grows on stony, clayey desert-steppe slopes, light forests and shrubs, on meadows in an area of extremely desert climate, on weedy and ruderal places.
Botanical description
The plant is 25–50 cm tall. Stems are cylindrical, straight, single or several, simple or branched from the very base, densely covered with long, harsh, bristly, simple hairs, often purple at the bottom.
The leaves are petiolate, with petioles of the lower and basal leaves 2-4 times as long as the plate, gradually diminishing upwards; for medium ones, equal, somewhat shorter or longer than the plate; at the top very short. Records of basal and lower stem leaves to fructification are usually fading, slightly palmately five to seven lobed, with rounded, wide, lobes; medium stem mostly palmately five or threefold into oval or ovoid lobes; the uppermost, usually triple or dissected into narrow, oblong lobes. All the leaves on the edge of the wrong-large-rounded-toothed, heart-shaped or notched at the base, less often cut. Stipules lanceolate or linearly lanceolate, herbaceous, with elongated, distant simple hairs.
Flowers solitary, in the axils of the leaves on long stalks several times larger than the flowers and the corresponding leaves. Podchashie most often eight-leaf, of elongated-lanceolate, gradually pointed leaflets, spliced 1 / 4-1 / 3 of its height, with a well-distinguished midrib. Calyx up to 1/3 accrete from linear-lanceolate, gradually upwards pointed segments with three prominent veins, with increasing fruits and covering the fruit. The corolla is pink-purple (bluish-purple in the dry state), whitish below it is one and a half times as large as the calyx. Petals wide wedge-shaped, cut at the top or barely noticeably notched and finely gnawed along the edge.
Fruits from 12-18 bare, narrow fruitlets, on the back with a noticeable longitudinal line and transverse wrinkling. Seeds are dark brown, bare, smooth.
Blossoms in April - July. Fruits in June - September.
The seeds contain about 16% fatty yellow oil .
Taxonomy
The Altea stiff-haired species is included in the Althea genus ( Althaea ) of the Malveae tribe of the Malvoideae subfamily of the Malvaceae family ( Malvaceae ) of the Malvales order .
| 8 more subfamilies (according to the APG II System ) | about 70 births | |||||||||||||||
| Malvaceae family | tribe Malveae | view Altya stiff-haired | ||||||||||||||
| Malvocolor order | subfamily malvoideae | genus Althea | ||||||||||||||
| 10 more families (according to the APG II System ) | 3 more tribes (according to the APG II System ) | about 12 more species | ||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
- ↑ According to the GRIN website (see the plant card).
Literature
- Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons. / Started by hand. and under ch. ed. V.L. Komarov . - M. L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1949. - Vol. 15 / ed. volume B. K. Shishkin , E. G. Bobrov . - pp. 129-130. - 742 s. - 4000 copies