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The genus Althaea is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Althaea

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Althaea angulata Freyn	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea armeniaca Ten.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea aucheri Boiss.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea australis W.R.Barker	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea baldschuanica Bornm.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea balearica J.J.Rodr.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea bertolae Colla	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea bertramii Post & Beauverd	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea borbonica DC.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea bordzilowskii Wissjul.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea borealis Alef.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea cannabina L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea cashmiriana (Cambess.) Kuntze	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea chrysantha Sam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea damascena Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea danubialis Gand.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea glabriflora Ledeb. ex Sweet	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea haussknechtii Baker f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea hiri Parsa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea hirsuta L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea indica Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea kusariensis Iljin ex Grossh.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea laxiflora A.DC. ex Schltdl.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea × litvinovii Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea loftusii Baker	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea longiflora Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea ludwigii L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea macroclada Gand.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea micrantha Wiesb. ex Borb.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea microchiton Baker f.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea minoricensis (Cambess.) Borbás	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea nudiflora Lindl.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea octaviae Evenari	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea officinalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea oppenheimii Ulbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea pantocsekii Gand.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea peduncularis (Boiss.) Baker f.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea pichleri Gand.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea pulchra Klotzsch	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea sieberi G.Don	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea silvestris (Brot.) Borbás	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea sintenisii Hausskn. ex Baker f.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea speciosa Vis.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea stenopetala (Coss. & Durieu) Kuntze	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea sylvestris V.Brig. ex Ten.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea tournefortiana Tausch	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea villosa Blatt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea vranjensis Diklić & V.Nikolić	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Althaea wolffii Ulbr.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 85 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Althaea. Of these 17 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Althaea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 85 species names for the genus Althaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	20.0%
◕	Synonym	32	37.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	36	42.4%

All names

The status of the 90 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Althaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	18.9%
◕	Synonym	37	41.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	36	40.0%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 85 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Althaea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	17	30	0	0	47	55.3%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	36	38	44.7%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Althaea is as follows: