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Alcea striata

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ15355628 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alcea striata, the desert hollyhock, is a tall hollyhock plant native between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It is found in rocky limestone slopes, fields, roadsides, scrub, and deserts, in the elevations 0–1200 m (0–4000 ft). It can be found in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, and Turkey.

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“Alcea striata” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alcea, striata and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1200—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alcea, striata and species.
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“Alcea striata” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alcea, striata and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q15355628. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1200.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alcea striata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.