HYDROGEN STORAGE ALLOY FOR ALKALINE STORAGE BATTERY

A hydrogen storage alloy suitable for a negative electrode of an alkaline storage battery is provided. The hydrogen storage alloy provided is a hydrogen storage alloy used for an alkaline storage battery that has, as a main phase, one or two crystal structures selected from an AB-type structure and an AB-type structure, and that is represented by a general formula: (LaCeSm)MgNiAlCr(where suffixes a, b, c, d, e, and f in this formula (1) meet the following conditions: 0