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Hibiscus ahlensis

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Name

Identification
Hibiscus ahlensis Ulbr. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Hibiscus micranthus L.f. [family MALVACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hibiscus micranthus
  • Hibiscus ahlensis

Flora

Entry for HIBISCUS ahlensis Ulbr. [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 ahlensis Ulbr. [family MALVACEAE], (1920);. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 1375 (B holo., destr.).
HIBISCUS sanguineus Franch. [family MALVACEAE], (1883), nom. illeg., non Griffith (1854);. type: N2, “Barkeia-Kogué”, Révoil s.n. (P holo., not found).
HIBISCUS micranthus (Franch.) Hochr. var. sanguineus [family MALVACEAE], in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 4 (1900);. type: N2, “Barkeia-Kogué”, Révoil s.n. (P holo., not found).
HIBISCUS ouarsangelicus Cuf. [family MALVACEAE], (1959), not validly published;. type: N2, “Barkeia-Kogué”, Révoil s.n. (P holo., not found).
Information
Slender shrub, up to 2.4 m tall; stems hispid with yellowish or somewhat brownish hairs. Leaves hispid-tomentose; petiole 3–15 mm long; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, 10–20 x 10–20 mm, often somewhat 3-lobed, with sharply and irregularly dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils; pedicels c. 10–25 mm long, hispid with yellowish or somewhat brownish hairs. Epicalyx bracts c. 10, short, linear-subulate, shorter than to slightly exceeding the calyx. Calyx hispid, c. 3–4 mm long; lobes 1-nerved. Petals 6–7 mm long, bright red, reflexed at anthesis. Capsule appressed puberulous. Seeds with cottony floss.
Range
N2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1350–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Newbould 843; Keogh 147.
Notes
Mira gel giri (Som.). For possible occurrences of H. ahlensis in N1, see under H. micranthus.

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