{"id":13095,"date":"2020-11-10T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/alcea-striata\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T19:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:08:29","slug":"alcea-striata","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/alcea-striata\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcea striata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perennial plant, up to 0.8(1) m in height. Stems erect or ascending, slightly or not lignified, cylindrical or slightly tapered, whitish, with adpressed-tomentose hairs. Leaf blade (3)4-6 cm, broadly ovate to orbicular-cordate, entire, shallowly lobed or deeply 3-5-lobed, with terminal lobe triangular or ovate-oblong, and crenate-dentate margin. Petiole 5-18 cm, lower leaves with long petioles, upper leaves with shorter petioles. Stipules 6-8 mm. Flowers in leafy racemes; pedicel 0.3-1.5 cm thick; upper flowers subsessile. Epicalyx about half or less the length of the calyx, with 6-8 acute triangular parts. Calyx 1.5-2.0 cm, with triangular-ovate and striated lobes. Corolla 5-6 cm in diameter, whitish creamy, with notched apex and cuneate base. Fruits with numerous mericarps, between 3-5 mm, with laterally sides radially wrinkled, pilose, black, with thick margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Alcea striata","name_html":"<strong>Alcea striata <\/strong>Alef.","short_description":"","common_names":"<em>Althaea striata <\/em>DC., <em>Althaea haussknechtii <\/em>Boiss.","other_name":"<em>Ara<\/em>. (Egypt): Khobbeiza.","flowering":"March to June.","fruiting":"June to September.","habitat":"Watercourses, rocky slopes, in wastelands and fallow lands.","distribution":"Coastal and subcoastal regions of Mediterranean Asia, from the Sinai Peninsula to Turkey.","observations":"There are 2 subspecies, <strong>A. striata<\/strong> subsp. <strong>striata<\/strong>, with slightly lobed leaves, and <strong>A. striata <\/strong>subsp. <strong>rufescens<\/strong> (Boiss.) Cullen, with deeply lobed leaves, both found in the same distribution area.\r\n\r\nAnother species of the genus cultivated in gardening and naturalised in North Africa, is <em>A. rosea<\/em> L. [<em>Althaea rosea<\/em> (L.) Cav., <em>Alcea ficifolia<\/em> L., <em>Althaea ficifolia <\/em>(L.) Cav.]; a perennial herbaceous plant, with a woody base in many occasions. Stems 1-2.5 m in height, erect, tomentose and stellate-pubescent when young, glabrescent or sparsely pubescent. Leaves longly petiolate, orbicular or ovate, cordate, 3-5-lobed or 3-5-palmatipartite (upper leaves 3-lobed), with oblong-ovate lobes, crenate-dentate, \u00b1 tomentose, discoloured. Stipules 4-5-laciniate. Flowers shortly pedicellate, axillary, forming terminal spiciform racemes. Epicalyx with 6-8 parts, shorter than the calyx, triangular-lanceolate, \u00b1 pubescent. Calyx with lobes 15-20(25) mm, triangular, acute. Petals 30-60 cm, obovate, irregularly denticulate and pubescent at the apex, whitish, pinkish, purplish, yellowish or more rarely dark purplish (var. <em>nigra<\/em>). Mericarps 20-40, 5-8 \u00d7 4-6 mm, reniform, \u00b1 furrowed and densely setose on the dorsal side, with 2 narrow, membranous wings, and lateral sides radially striated and adpressed-setose, dark in colour. 2<em>n <\/em>= 42. It is found from sea level to 1,600 m in altitude. It seems to be native to the Balkans, but since it has been cultivated as an ornamental and for medicinal uses, it can now be found naturalised in other Mediterranean countries, including the Sinai Peninsula.","conservation":"Fairly rare species with a small distribution area. Currently, it has not been assessed at a global level in the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>.","genus":[{"short_name":"Alcea","name_html":"<strong>Alcea<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Vald\u00e9s, B., 1996. Notas sobre <em>Lavatera<\/em> de Marruecos. <em>Lagascalia<\/em>, 18: 237-240.","custom_author":"A.F. Carrillo.","family":{"10908":{"name_html":"<strong>MALVACEAE <\/strong>Juss.","short_name":"MALVACEAE","short_description":"","references":"Tate, J.A., Aguilar, J.F., Wagstaff, S.J., La Duke, J.C., Bodo Slotta T.A. &amp; Simpson, B.B. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships within the tribe Malveae (Malvaceae, subfamily Malvoideae) as inferred from ITS sequence data. - Amer. J. Bot. 92: 584-602.","custom_author":"A. F. Carrillo & F. Alcaraz.","genuses":[{"ID":"11323","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_content":"Genus with about 216 accepted species. Annual and perennial herbaceous plants, or shrubs, rarely small trees. In North Africa it is represented by 4 taxa, distributed mainly through the Sahara. The largest species is <strong>A. longicuspe<\/strong>, a shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall. The other species (<strong>A. pannosum<\/strong>, <strong>A. fruticosum <\/strong>and<strong> A. bidentatum<\/strong>) are herbaceous perennials with slightly lignified stems at the base that can reach up to 1(2) m in height.\r\n\r\nSeveral species of the genus of tropical origin, generally Asian, are cultivated on the 5 continents and, in several countries, they are already beginning to behave as invasive, also in North Africa. Two species should be highlighted, both perennial plants, with older stems somewhat lignified at the base, up to 1.5(3) m tall, cordate leaves, solitary flowers, yellow petals and fruits with 15-22 mericarps. <em>A. indicum<\/em> (L.) Sweet [<em>A.<\/em> <em>albidum<\/em> (Willd.) Sweet] with leaves covered with simple, short, non-glandular hairs, and <em>A. theophrasti<\/em> Medik. 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It is an ancient genus present in SW and central Asia, widespread in the Mediterranean area, where it is especially abundant in the eastern part. Almost all of its species are used as ornamentals, even some have an industrial application, being used for the production of paper pulp. In North Africa one species appears, at least partially woody, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/alcea-striata\/\"><strong>A.striata<\/strong><\/a>.","post_title":"Alcea L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alcea-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 18:26:37","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 18:26:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/alcea-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1233","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11302","trid":"114108","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11302"},{"ID":"11317","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_content":"Genus with about 54 species, trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, with simple, entire or lobulate leaves. They are distributed through temperate warm and tropical regions. In North Africa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/gossypium-herbaceum\/\"><strong>G. herbaceum <\/strong><\/a>is found, which is a perennial species.","post_title":"Gossypium L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gossypium-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 18:03:31","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 18:03:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/gossypium-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1248","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11317","trid":"114113","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11317"},{"ID":"11332","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_content":"<p>Small trees or shrubs, rarely prostrate. Genus with about 320 species of tropical distribution through Africa, Asia and Australia. In North Africa it is represented by up to 5 species of shrubby nature. This genus was traditionally included in the <em>Tiliaceae <\/em>family<em>. <\/em><\/p><em> <\/em>","post_title":"Grewia L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"grewia-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/grewia-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1263","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11332","trid":"114118","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11332"},{"ID":"11308","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_content":"<p>Genus with about 240 species, distributed throughout the tropical and temperate regions. In North Africa it is represented by 3 shrub species, to which we should add <em>H. trionium<\/em> L., a Mediterranean plant with herbaceous stems. The genus is composed of annual or perennial herbaceous plants, subshrubs, shrubs or small trees, with hispid stems, rarely glabrous, usually with stellate hairs.<\/p>","post_title":"Hibiscus L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"hibiscus-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/hibiscus-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1239","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11308","trid":"114110","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11308"},{"ID":"11314","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_content":"<p>Genus composed of about 10 species, mainly of Mediterranean distribution. In North Africa 3 species can be considered shrubby, with alternate leaves, \u00b1 divided, petiolate. <\/p>","post_title":"Lavatera L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"lavatera-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/lavatera-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1245","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11314","trid":"114112","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11314"},{"ID":"11311","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_content":"<p>Genus with about 30 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants, sometimes woody at the base, erect or prostrate; or small shrubs; distributed through Europe, Asia and Africa. Many species are naturalised in America, Australia and New Zealand. In North Africa it is represented by at least 3 woody species that traditionally used to be ascribed to the genus <em>Lavatera<\/em>. <\/p>","post_title":"Malva L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"malva-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/malva-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1242","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11311","trid":"114111","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11311"},{"ID":"11326","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_content":"<p>Genus with a pantropical distribution, composed of some 44 species of perennial, herbaceous or woody plants. In North Africa it is represented by 2 woody species, with some citations from Niger, Chad, Sudan and SE corner of Egypt. <\/p>","post_title":"Melhania Forssk.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"melhania-forssk-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/melhania-forssk-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1257","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11326","trid":"114116","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11326"},{"ID":"11305","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_content":"<p>Genus with around 250 species, annual or perennial herbaceous plants and shrubs, distributed through the tropical or temperate regions of both hemispheres. In North Africa it is represented by 3 shrubby species. <\/p>","post_title":"Pavonia Cav.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pavonia-cav-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/pavonia-cav-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1236","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11305","trid":"114109","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11305"},{"ID":"11320","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_content":"Genus composed of around 150 species distributed through tropical, subtropical and temperate regions, especially in America. Annual pubescent, perennial or shrubby plants. In North Africa it is represented by 3 taxa, which are at least partially woody.\r\n\r\nA further species, adventitious, can be found at least in Egypt:\u00a0<em>S. acuta<\/em> Burm.f. [<em>Malvastrum carpinifolium<\/em> (L.f.) A. Gray, <em>Malvinda carpinifolia<\/em> (L.f.) Medik., <em>S. balbisiana<\/em> DC.] is a perennial plant or small shrub, 30-80 cm in height, with a woody base; trunk erect and branched.\u00a0 It is differentiated by its subglabrous or sparsely puberulent stems. Leaf blade 1-6 \u00d7 0.5-1.5 cm, lanceolate, glabrous or finely pilose, with serrated margin, rounded base, acute apex. Petiole 2-6 mm. Stipules 0.2-1.2 cm, linear-lanceolate to filiform. Flowers axillary, solitary or in racemes of 2-3 flowers; pedicel 2-5 mm. Sepals 5-6.5 mm campanulate, acuminate lobe. Petals 8-9 mm, yellow. Fruits with 6-10 mericarps, 3-4 mm each, tetrahedral, with 2 apical edges, reticulated on the back, with striated sides, glabrous. Seeds 2 mm, glabrous, dark brown. Ruderal plant, that grows in cultivated areas, ditches, borders of crops, margins of irrigation canals, etc. It presents a pantropical distribution and it has spread to other areas such as the Nile delta.","post_title":"Sida L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sida-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 17:47:32","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 17:47:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/sida-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1251","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11320","trid":"114114","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11320"},{"ID":"11329","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_content":"Genus with about 90 pantropical species, of which only one (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/sterculia-africana\/\"><strong>S. africana<\/strong><\/a>) reaches North Africa, reaching the SE of Egypt and Sudan.","post_title":"Sterculia L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sterculia-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 17:29:25","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 17:29:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/sterculia-l-2\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"1260","element_type":"post_genus","element_id":"11329","trid":"114117","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"11329"},{"ID":"11335","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:32","post_content":"Genus with about 100 species of shrubs, more rarely perennial or annual herbaceous plants, distributed through tropical and subtropical regions. 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In North Africa, in terms of \u00b1 woody taxa, it is represented by 12 genera with tree, shrub and herbaceous species, with stems somewhat lignified. <strong>Corchorus <\/strong>L., could also be added, with the species <strong>C. depressus<\/strong> (L.) Stocks [<em>Antichorus depressus<\/em> L., <em>C. antichorus<\/em> (L.) Raeusch., <em>C. microphyllus<\/em> Fresen.], with creeping, herbaceous stems, slightly lignified at the base, but only 20(40) cm in height; elliptic leaves with crenate margin; pentamerous flowers, solitary; yellow corolla and fruit in capsule 1-1.5 cm, cylindrical, slightly curved, with 4 valves. It grows from the Cape Verde Islands to India. 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It is an ancient genus present in SW and central Asia, widespread in the Mediterranean area, where it is especially abundant in the eastern part. Almost all of its species are used as ornamentals, even some have an industrial application, being used for the production of paper pulp. 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