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Hibiscus hypoglossum

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Name

Identification
Hibiscus surattensis L. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Hibiscus hypoglossum E. Meyer [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Hibiscus surattensis
  • Hibiscus hypoglossum

Flora

Entry for HIBISCUS Surattensis Linn. [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 Surattensis Linn. [family MALVACEAE], ;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 449. Bot. Mag. t. 1356.
HIBISCUS hypoglossum E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE], !
Information
annual; the branches, peduncles and petioles armed with hooked tubercles; leaves deeply 5-lobed, with lanceolate, toothed lobes; stipules broadly semi-cordate, clasping the stem; peduncles axillary, one-flowered; invol. of many spathulate leaflets, each furnished in front with an inflexed, subulate appendix; calyx-lobes deltoid, acuminate, with a densely setose mid-rib. Chiefly distinguished from H. furcatus by the shape and size of the stipules. Flowers yellow with a deep red or purple centre. The curious form of involucral leaflets which marks these two species may be referred to what is called, “ deduplication ,” and its occurrence in Malvaceæ, where the stamens (as Dr. Gray has ably shown) are developed in a similar way, is not without significance.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, Drege! Sanderson! Dr. Grant! (Herb. Hook.).

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