Plant Details

Accepted name:: Alcea rosea L. [Malvaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alcea	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
alcea rosea whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
althaea flower	Other	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
althaeae flos	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
asi	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
binafsa	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
chinesische stockrose	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
dodda bindige gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
duān wǔ jǐn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gewöhnliche stockrose	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
gul hero	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
gulhatmi	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
gulkhair	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hollyhock	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
hú kuí	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jeopsikkot	Other	Med. Pl. in S. Mountainous Region of Korea (Kim & Song, 2011) Survey of Med. Pl., Jeju Island, Korea (Song et al., 2013)
jung k'uei	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
kempu seeme thutthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khatmah barri	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
khatmi	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
khotma wardy	Other	Med. Pl. in Iraq (Al-Douri, 2000)
malva	Other	Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
malva real	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
malvae arboreae flos	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994)
malvaloca	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
malvarrosa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
marsh mallow	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pho lcam	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
po cham	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
rose mallow	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
rose tremière	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
rose trémière	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
roses tremieres	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
roses tremieres mondees	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
shtok rosa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
shu k'uei	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
shu kui	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
shǔ kuí	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shǔ kuí huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
stockmalve	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
stockmalvenblüten	Other	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994)
stockros	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
stockrose	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
tachi-aoi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
vara de san josé	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
varita de san jose	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
ward al khatmi	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
wu k'uei hwa	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
wú kuí	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yī zhàng hóng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
الخطمي	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
ཕོ་ལྕམ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
一丈红	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
吴葵	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
端午锦	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
胡葵	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蜀葵	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蜀葵子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蜀葵根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蜀葵花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蜀葵苗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Entire plant		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
flower, leaf		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
roots, leaves, flowers		Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
flower		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Flower, seed		Med. Pl. in Iraq (Al-Douri, 2000)
Flower		Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
root		Survey of Med. Pl., Jeju Island, Korea (Song et al., 2013)
root		Med. Pl. in S. Mountainous Region of Korea (Kim & Song, 2011)
flower		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
leaf		Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 26 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Althaea rosea (L.) Cav. Diss. 2: 91 (1786).
Althaea rosea var. sinensis (Cav.) S.Y.Hu Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 153: 10 (1955).
Althaea sinensis Cav. Diss. 2: t. 29 (1786).
Alcea annua Winterl Index Hort. Bot. Univ. Hung.: A-2 (1788).
Alcea biennis subsp. cretica (Weinm.) Valdés Willdenowia 41: 319 (2011).
Alcea cretica (Weinm.) Greuter Willdenowia 8: 558 (1979).
Alcea microchiton Alef. Oesterr. Bot. Z. 12: 254 (1862).
Alcea pallida subsp. cretica (Weinm.) D.A.Webb Feddes Repert. 74: 27 (1967).
Alcea rosea var. alta Alef. Landw. Fl.: 113 (1866).
Alcea rosea var. atra Alef. Landw. Fl.: 112 (1866).
Alcea rosea flore-pleno-aurantiaca Brimm Allg. Anz. Deutschen 2: 3826 (1827), not validly publ.
Alcea rosea flore-pleno-nigra Brimm Allg. Anz. Deutschen 2: 3826 (1827), not validly publ.
Alcea rosea var. sinensis (Cav.) Alef. Landw. Fl.: 113 (1866).
Alcea rosea var. tinctoria Alef. Landw. Fl.: 112 (1866).
Althaea caribaea Sims Bot. Mag. 44: t. 1916 (1817).
Althaea chinensis Wall. Numer. List: n.° 2689 (1831).
Althaea coromandeliana Cav. Diss. 2: 93 (1786).
Althaea cretica Weinm. Syll. Pl. Nov. 2: 171 (1828).
Althaea flexuosa Sims Bot. Mag. 23: t. 892 (1805).
Althaea meonantha Link Linnaea 9: 586 (1834).
Althaea mexicana Kunze Linnaea 20: 51, 404 (1847).
Althaea microchiton (Alef.) Baker f. J. Bot. 28: 144 (1890).
Malva florida Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 381 (1796).
Malva hortensus K.F.Schimp. & Spenn. in F.C.L.Spenner, Fl. Friburg. 3: 886 (1829).
Malva rosea (L.) E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 6: 245 (1902), nom. illeg.
Malva rosea Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd.: t. 359 (1764), opus utique rej.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alcea rosea	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Alcea rosea L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Alcea rosea Linnaeus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Alcea rosea Linné	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994)
Althaea rosa cav.	Med. Pl. in Iraq (Al-Douri, 2000)
Althaea rosea	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Althaea rosea (L.) Cav	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
Althaea rosea (L.) Cav.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Althaea rosea (L.) Cav. var. sinensis (Cav.) S.Y.Hu	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Althaea rosea (L.) Cavan.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Althaea rosea Cav.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in S. Mountainous Region of Korea (Kim & Song, 2011) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000) Survey of Med. Pl., Jeju Island, Korea (Song et al., 2013)
Althaea rosea Cavanil	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
Althaea rosea Cavara	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Althaea sinensis Cav.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Althea rosea Cav.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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