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|accepted_name=Althaea armeniaca
|accepted_authority=Tenore
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Index Seminum (Naples)
|place=1839: 11. 1839
|year=1839
}}
|common_names=Armenian marshmallow;guimauve arménienne
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Althaea micrantha
|authority=Wiesbaur ex Borbás
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|name=A. officinalis var. pseudoarmeniaca
|authority=Polgár
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Althaea;Althaea armeniaca
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Althaea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Althaea armeniaca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 231
|treatment_page=page 232
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, 0.4–2 m. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched distally, softly stellate-tomentose. <b>Leaves</b>: stipule somewhat persistent, linear, simple, 2–5 mm, white pilose-hairy; petiole 0.5–5 cm, stellate-hairy; blade orbiculate, palmately divided, 5-lobed, 5–7 × 6–8 cm, lobes lanceolate, 0.5–5 × 0.3–3.5 cm, base truncate, margins irregularly serrate, apex obtuse, upper leaves reduced, orbiculate-triangular, 3–5-lobed, 1–6 × 0.6–5 cm, middle lobe longer than others, surfaces stellate-hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–4-flowered fascicles in leaf axils or peduncles many-flowered; peduncles 0.5–3 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.1–5 cm, densely stellate-hairy; involucellar bractlets 6–10, linear-lanceolate, free portions 2–6 × 0.5–2 mm, 1/2+ as long as calyx, margins entire, apex acuminate, densely stellate-hairy. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 8–10 mm, not or only slightly accrescent, lobes lanceolate, margins entire, apex acuminate, stellate-hairy; petals lilac-purple, 9–15 × 4–6 mm, 1.1–1.5(–3) times as long as calyx, margins entire, apex obtuse or slightly notched; staminal column 1–3 mm, glabrous or rarely sparsely papillose-hairy; anthers in upper 1/2, purple; style 10–20-branched. <b>Fruits</b> partially concealed by incurved calyx lobes, 7 mm diam.; mericarps 10–20, erect, brown, unwinged, orbiculate, rugose, stellate pilose-hairy, sides glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> brown, reniform-round, 1–2 × 2–2.5 mm, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 84.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Wet or moist ditches, disturbed areas, stream drainages
|elevation=300–400 m
|distribution=S.Dak.;w Asia (n Iran;s Russia;Turkey;Turkistan).
|discussion=<p><i>Althaea armeniaca</i> is very similar to <i>A. officinalis</i> and is known to hybridize with it. <i>Althaea armeniaca</i> differs primarily by the more deeply five-lobed leaves rather than the three in <i>A. officinalis</i> and can be distinguished from <i>A. cannabina</i> by its pubescent fruits. Only a single population is known from the flora area, found in Hutchinson County, near Lonetree Creek west of Olivet. The species dominated a fence row at the edge of a field and was locally common in scattered clumps over an area of about three miles.</p>
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name=Althaea armeniaca
|author=
|authority=Tenore
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Althaea micrantha;A. officinalis var. pseudoarmeniaca
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Wet or moist ditches, disturbed areas, stream drainages
|elevation=300–400 m
|distribution=S.Dak.;w Asia (n Iran;s Russia;Turkey;Turkistan).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Index Seminum (Naples)
|publication year=1839
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_413.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Althaea
|species=Althaea armeniaca
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