Alcea digitata
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image = Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 32.jpg
|image_caption = Small plant flowering in Antalya
|genus = Alcea
|species = digitata
|authority = (Boiss.) Alef.{{BioRef|POWO|id=558657-1|genus=Alcea|species=digitata}}
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|Althaea digitata |Boiss.
|Alcea leiocarpa |(Sam.)
|Althaea leiocarpa |Sam.
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Alcea digitata, the fingered hollyhock,{{cite web |url= https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/546087 |work=iNaturalist |title=Alcea digitata}} is a tall hollyhock with large flowers native to the Middle East.
Description
A medium to tall (up to 3 m), hairy hollyhock with large, pinkish, or pale flowers (petals to 50 mm). The leaves (particularly upper ones) are distinctively divided into spreading finger-like lobes whose edges are irregular and at times sublobed, the lobes at the base of the leaf tending to point rather backward. Whilst the leaf-end lobe is larger than the others but not hugely so. The low leaves can be well-divided into fingers or just shallowly lobed.
The stem is narrow (to 12 mm) and branched only at the base.The hairs are star-like (sparse or dense). When tall, its height mostly comprises a long flower stalk with little leafage. It is found at roadsides, fields, rocky slopes, steppe, and maquis.
The epicalyx is large (>=50% calyx). The fruit segments with wingless edges, conspicuously wrinkled, pilose hairy (the sides sparsely).{{cite journal |title=The taxonomic revision of Alcea and Althaea (Malvaceae) in Turkey |last1=Uzunhisarciklı |first1=Mehmet Erkan |last2=Vural |first2=Mecit |journal=Turkish Journal of Botany |volume=36 |issue=6 |date=1 January 2012 |url= https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1716&context=botany}}{{cite thesis |title=The Revision of Alcea L. and Althaea L. (Malvaceae) Genus in Turkey |url= https://avesis.gazi.edu.tr/yonetilen-tez/b371cbe2-ce39-4a20-9a9c-d2ff085635c6/turkiyenin-alcea-l-ve-althaea-l-malvaceae-cinslerinin-revizyonu |last=Uzunhisarciklı |first=Mehmet Erkan |date=2009 |degree=PhD |publisher=Gazi University}}
Distribution
Botanical photographs
Photographs from Antalya unless indicated.
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 29.jpg|Typical look in flower
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 33.jpg|Typical look in flower
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 18.jpg|Topmost flowers
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 03.jpg|Growing plant
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 06.jpg|Growing plant
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 01.jpg|Leaf shape with end lobe only a little longer and base-lobes backward-pointing
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 21.jpg|Flower side, showing stellate large epicalyx (>=50% calyx)
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 25.jpg|Flower underside
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 26.jpg|Floral organs in flower centre
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 23.jpg|Petal base showing hairs
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 10.jpg|Buds, with smaller stellate hairs and large epicalyx
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 11.jpg|Buds, with smaller stellate hairs and large epicalyx
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 34.jpg|Calyx with stellate hairs
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 35.jpg|Flower stalk
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 08.jpg|Leaf with narrower lobes
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 27.jpg|Leaf with broader lobes (lowest leaves may be very shallow-lobed)
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 02.jpg|Leaf underside with coarse and fine stellate hairs (upper leaves less coarsely)
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 05.jpg|Leaf upperside
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 14.jpg|Leaf stalk with coarser hairs
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 15.jpg|Stem with coarser hairs
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 30.jpg|Stem with sparse hairs
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 39.jpg|Stem with coarse and many less coarse hairs
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 20.jpg|Inflorescence stem with less coarse hairs
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 28.jpg|Exceptionally tall plant, in flower
File:Alcea digitata in Antalya by David Merrick 13.jpg|Exceptionally tall plant (reaching just beyond top of photo)
References
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- {{cite book |last=Davis |first=P. H. |title=Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands |volume=2}}{{page needed|date=January 2024}}
- {{cite book |last=Post |first=George E. |title=Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai |edition=2nd |volume=1}}{{page needed|date=January 2024}}
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