trailing hollyhock (India, Sastri); black-eyed Susan (India, Sastri)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
Flora
Entry for HIBISCUS Trionum 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 TrionumLinn. [family MALVACEAE], ;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 453. Cav. Diss. t. 64. f. 1. 2. 3. Bot. Mag. t. 209.
Information
annual, hairy; leaves polymorphous, mostly deeply 3–5 lobed or partite, the segments coarsely toothed and incised, the lower leaves (sometimes all the leaves) ovate or oblong, less densely cut or simply toothed; peduncles axillary; involucels of about 10 narrrow-linear, hairy and ciliate leaflets; calyces 5- angled, inflated, becoming bladdery after flowering, the segments broadly ovate, blunt, with many-hispid nerves; capsules many-seeded, hispid, seeds smooth. A common sub-tropical weed, with handsome primrose-coloured or buff flowers, with a dark-brown, velvetty centre. The species is best known by its bladdery, many-ribbed calyx.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In waste, garden ground and in rich, damp soil throughout the colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, common. (Herb. T.C.D., Sond., &c.).
