Althaea cannabina, L.

3. A. cannabina L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 686 (1753)

(inch A. kotschyi Boiss. ).

Pubescent perennial up to 180 cm; all hairs stellate. Leaves palmately lobed, often to the base, with 3-5 lanceolate or linear, irregularly dentate and sometimes lobed segments. Flowers solitary or in clusters, on long, often branched, axillary peduncles, and often also forming a terminal panicle. Epicalyx-segments linear-lanceolate to ovate-acuminate. Sepals ovate, acuminate, erect in fruit. Petals 15-30 mm, pink. Anthers purplish-red. Mericarps glabrous, transversely rugose on the dorsal face; angles rounded. S. & E.C. Europe. Al Bu Cz Ga G r Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Rs (W, K) Sa Si Tu. A. narbonensis Pourret ex Cav. , Monad. Class. Diss. Dec. 94 (1786), described from S. France, does not appear to merit more than varietal rank. The taxon to which this name is applied by Iljin in Komarov, Fl. U.R.S.S. 15: 142 (1949) does not seem to be the same, and may represent a subspecies found in S.E. Europe.