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Hibiscus schinzii

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Name

Identification
Hibiscus schinzii (Gürke) Hochr. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Hibiscus ulbrichtianus
  • Hibiscus schinzii

Flora

Entry for Hibiscus sidiformis Baill. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 420, (1961) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Hibiscus schinzii Gürke Hochr. [family MALVACEAE], torn. cit.: 127 (1900) non H. schinzii Gürke (1889). Type as above.
Hibiscus ternifoliolus F. W. Andr. [family MALVACEAE], Fl. Pl. Anglo-Egypt. Sudan, 2: 31 (1952). Type as for Solandra ternata Cav.
Lagunaea schinzii Gürke [family MALVACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Verein. Brand. 30: 180 (1888). Type from SW. Africa.
Hibiscus sidiformis Baill. [family MALVACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 1: 518 (1885) (\"sidaeformis\"). — Hochr., Fl. Madag., Malvac.: 44, t. 12 fig. 4–5 (1955). Type from Madagascar.
Solandra ternata Cav. [family MALVACEAE], Diss. Bot. 5: 279, t. 136 fig. 2 (1788). Type from Senegal.
Hibiscus ternatus Cav. Mast. [family MALVACEAE], in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 206 (1868) non H. ternatus Cav. (1787). — Hochr., in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève, 4: 126 (1900). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 416 (1916). — Engl. in Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 403, fig. 187 L-N(1921). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 280 (1932) — Mendonça & Torre, Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 1: 15 (1950). — Martineau, Rhod. Wild Fl.: 51(1954). Type as above.
Information
Annual herb from 6 cm. to 1 m. tall, erect or with arcuate-ascending branches from near the base; young stems densely pubescent or tomentellous with occasional longer weak or stiffish hairs. Leaf-lamina 1–5 × 1–5 cm., broadly ovate to suborbicular, often not or scarcely lobed towards the base of the stem, becoming shallowly to deeply 3-lobed towards the apex, hairy like the young stems on both surfaces, lobes broadly elliptic to almost linear, usually narrower in the upper leaves, apex acute to rounded, margin entire or coarsely serrate, base usually cordate; petiole up to 4·5 cm. long, hairy like the young stems; stipules 1–2 mm. long, filiform, caducous. Flowers 3–3·5 cm. in diam., white or pale yellow, solitary, axillary; peduncle up to 4 cm. long, slender, pubescent, articulated c. 2 mm. below the apex. Epicalyx absent. Calyx 8–13 mm. long, becoming somewhat scarious in fruit, hairy like the young stems; lobes narrowly lanceolate, joined for c. 3 mm. at the base. Petals up to 18 × 8 mm., narrowly obovate, glabrous. Staminal tube up to 12 mm. long, antheriferous only in the upper half; free parts of filaments 1·5–2 mm. long. Style-branches c. 0·5 mm. long. Capsule 5–8 × 5–6 mm., ellipsoid, carpels pointed or with short awns 0·5–1 mm. long. Seeds 2 × 1·5 mm., irregularly subreniform, densely verruculose otherwise glabrous.
Habitat
In river valleysoften on alluvial silt and in mopane woodland and Terminalia-Commiphora thickets.
Altitude range
up to c. 1000 m.
1000
0
inferred only top
Distribution
Mozambique MS Meringua, fl. & fr. 30.vi.1950, Chase 2472 (SRGH).Malawi C near Lake Nyasa, near Senga Bay, 470 m., fl. & fr. 17.ii.1959, Robson 1621A (BM; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Gwanda Distr., Shashi R., fl. & fr. 18.xii.1956, Dames 2366 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali, Maranka Reserve, 760 m., fl. & fr. 10.ii.1953, Chase 4772 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Wankie Distr., Matetsi, 850 m., fl. & fr. iii.1918. Rand 1289 (BM).Mozambique T Lupata, fl. & fr. 20.iv.1862, Kirk (K).Malawi N 13 km. W. of Karonga, 490m., fl. & fr. 24.ii.1953, Williamson 182 (BM).Zimbabwe N Urungwe Distr., Mauora R., fl. 26.ii.1958, Phipps 892 (SRGH).Zambia S Living-stone, fl. & fr. iv.1909, Rogers 7064 (SRGH).Botswana N Ngamiland, Curson 405 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
tropical and S. Africa
Madagascar

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