Alcea pallida subsp. eretica, (Weinm.) D. A. Webb

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 254

(b) Subsp. eretica (Weinm.) D. A. Webb , Feddes Repert. 74: 27 (1967)

( Althaea eretica Weinm. , Althaea rosea auct. plur., non (L.) Cav.):

Densely tomentose; petals bright pink or purple, scarcely yellow at the base, not very deeply emarginate; mericarps 5-5-6 mm, pale brown, with lateral faces appressed-setose. 5. & W. parts of Balkan peninsula; Kriti.

In the S. part of the Balkan peninsula, plants are found with combinations of the differential characters which makes it difficult to assign them to either subspecies.

A. apterocarpa (Fenzl) Boiss. , FI. Or. 1: 830 (1867), which is very like 3 (b) but with unwinged mericarps, is doubtfully recorded from S. Greece; no European material with ripe fruit appears to be available.