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Hibiscus calyphyllus

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Identification
Hibiscus calyphyllus Cav. [family MALVACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hibiscus calyphyllus

Flora

Entry for HIBISCUS calycinus Willd. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
HIBISCUS calycinus Willd. [family MALVACEAE], Sp. 3. p. 817;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 448.
HIBISCUS calyphyllus Cav. [family MALVACEAE], Diss. t. 140.
HIBISCUS ficarius E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE], !
HIBISCUS borbonicus Link.? [family MALVACEAE]
Information
shrubby; branches, petioles, and peduncles thinly stellato-pubescent; leaves on long petioles, roundish-cordate, obtusely 3–5- angled, crenate 5–7-nerved, velvetty and sprinkled with hairs; stipules subulate; peduncles axillary, shorter than the petiole; invol. of 5, broadly-spathulate, cuspidate and bristle-pointed many-nerved leaflets, about as long as the calyx; capsule ovate-acuminate, tomentose. A shrub, with slender, sub-simple branches and sub-distant leaves, pretty constant in shape and pubescence. The invol. leaflets are remarkable in form, and in their pungent points; and serve to distinguish this species from H. Ludwigii, its nearest ally. Cavanille's figure, except that it shows an infantile corolla, is very good. The mature flowers are large, yellow, with a dark-red centre.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA S. Africa, Drege! Caffraria, Dr. Gill! Mooje River, Burke and Zey.! Natal, Gueinzius. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.).

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