Entry for HIBISCUS leiospermus Harv. [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 leiospermusHarv. [family MALVACEAE]
Information
dwarf, erect, the whole plant, except the petals densely setose with stiff, spreading, stellate hairs; leaves oval-oblong, 5-nerved, entire or 2–3-toothed near the point, on short petioles; stipules subulate; flowers axillary, pedunculate; involucre of about 10 subulate leaflets, nearly as long as the acuminate calyx-lobes; capsules and seeds glabrous. Stems woody, about 6 inches high, divided near the base into several erect, simple branches. Pubescence very rough, rigid and copious. Flowers 1 1/2 inch diameter, crimson or rosy. Seeds quite naked. In habit resembling one of the following section.
