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Fioria dictyocarpa

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Hibiscus dictyocarpus Hochst. ex Webb [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Fioria dictyocarpa (Webb) Mattei [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pavonia dictyocarpa
  • Hibiscus dictyocarpus
  • Fioria dictyocarpa

Flora

Entry for HIBISCUS dictyocarpus Webb [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HIBISCUS dictyocarpus Webb [family MALVACEAE], (1854);
Fioria dictyocarpa (Webb) Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1917). Fig. 29. [type as above]
HIBISCUS pavonioides Fiori [family MALVACEAE], (1913);. types: S3, “Giumbo”, Fiori 3 & 19 (FT syn.).
Fioria pavonioides (Fiori) Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1917);. types: S3, “Giumbo”, Fiori 3 & 19 (FT syn.).
Information
Shrubby herb or subshrub up to c. 1.5 m tall; stems pubescent to pilose with simple hairs. Leaves pubescent to pilose; petiole 0.5–8 cm long; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular in outline, shallowly to deeply 3–5-lobed, 1–8.5 x 1–9 cm; lobes triangular, acute to rounded at the apex, coarsely dentate. Flowers in leaf axils; pedicels 1.5–6.5 cm long, articulated above or below middle. Epicalyx bracts 8–10, (3–)7–15(–20) mm long, linear. Calyx 10–18 mm long, tube and basal part of lobes with many-branched bulbous-based yellow stellate hairs, apical part of lobes stellate pubescent to pilose; lobes narrowly triangular, with central and 2 submarginal nerves. Petals 1–2.5 cm long, yellow with purple base. Staminal tube 5–8 mm long. Capsule 7–12 mm long, ellipsoid to subglobose, 5-winged, obtuse, glabrous, distinctly reticulately veined, at maturity separating from the receptacle and divided into 3 parts, two 3-winged parts consisting of one whole carpel which stays closed and 2 halves, and one 2-winged part consisting of 2 halves which opens up. Seeds 1–2 per cell, 2.5–3.5 mm long, tomentellous.
Range
S1, 3
Altitude range
75–320 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7477; Gillett & al. 25208; Beckett & White 1556.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Sudan
N Kenya
Saudi Arabia
Notes
Vollesen in Fl. Eth. 2(2): 214 (1995) placed this species in Fioria . Fioria originally comprised three species, F. dictyocarpa, F. pavonioides and F. vitifolia . Vollesen treated F. dictyocarpa (including F. pavonioides) as the sole species of Fioria and placed F. vitifolia in Hibiscus . However, this is no longer possible as F. vitifolia has been selected as the lectotype of Fioria. For example, Fryxell in Brittonia 49: 230 (1997) regarded Fioria as a distinct genus with the single species F. vitifolia. I prefer to include both H. dictyocarpus and H. vitifolius in the variable Hibiscus until a more comprehensive study of the circumscription of this genus has been made.

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