TAXOMATRIC STUDY OF GENUS ALCEA L. IN IRAQ
Keywords:
Alcea L, Malvaceae, TaxomatricAbstract
The current research dealt with a morphological study that included 85 characters, including vegetative, flowering, fruiting, and seed characters, to compare the species of the genus Alcea L. numerically and after drawing the phenogram and polygonal drawings, the results showed that the percentage between the species of the genus is 53.14, and the species were divided into six groups based on the percentage of similarity, which is:- The first group: Including A.peduncularis & A.digitata with (67.35) similarity. The second: Including A.sulphurea, A.dissecta, A.kurdica & A.guestii with (66.75) similarity.
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