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Hibiscus praeteritus R. A. Dyer [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 hirtus subsp. africanus Cufod. [family MALVACEAE], torn. cit.: 44 (1948).
Hibiscus hirtus [family MALVACEAE], sensu Ulbr. & Fr. in R.E.Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. I: 146 (1914).
Hibiscus micranthus [family MALVACEAE], sensu Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 28 (1911) pro parte quoad specim. Swynnerton 2051.
Hibiscus praeteritus R. A. Dyer [family MALVACEAE], Fl. Pl. S. Afr. 11: t. 436 (1931). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 282 (1932). — Cufod. in Ann. Naturh. Mus. Wien, 56: 54 (1948). — Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8, 3: 224 (1953). — Wild, Guide Fl. Vict. Falls: 147 (1953). — Martineau, Rhod. Wild Fl.: 50, t. 18 fig. 2 (1954). Type from the Transvaal (Soutpansberg).
Information
Virgate perennial herb up to 2 m. tall; stems appressed-stellate-setulose. Leaf-lamina up to 6 × 3 cm., ovate to narrowly lanceolate, sparsely to fairly densely stellate-hispid on both surfaces, apex acute to rather blunt, margin serrate, base obtuse to rounded or truncate 3–5-nerved; petiole up to 3 cm. long; stipules 5 mm. long, subulate. Flowers 2–3 cm. in diam., red or pink? (perhaps hybrids), solitary, axillary; peduncle up to 8 cm. long, articulated 4–5 mm. below the apex. Epicalyx of 6–7 bracts; bracts 5–10 mm. long, linear. Calyx up to 9–10 mm. long, stellate-setulose; lobes up to 8–9 × 1·5 mm., linear-lanceolate. Petals 10–20 mm. long, narrowly obovate, sparsely stellate-setose outside, glabrous inside. Staminal tube 7–12 mm. long; free parts of filaments 0·5–1 mm. long. Style-branches 7–15 mm. long. Capsule 9 × 9 mm., subglobose, minutely pubescent. Seeds with white silky floss.
Habitat
Margins of rivers.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chirinda, 60 m., fl. & fr. 19.xii.1906, Swynnerton 2051 (BM).Zimbabwe E Melsetter Distr., Cashel, fl. 13.i.1951, Crook 329 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique T Kabankangywa Kraal, fl. & fr. 22.ix.1948, Wild 2589 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, 850 m., fl. iii.1918, Eyles 1273 (BM; SRGH).Malawi S Chikwawa, Banda 129 (BM).Botswana N Ngamiland, Curson 766 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
S. Angola
S. Africa
Notes
The specimens cited under H. hirtus L. by Garcke (in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 127 (1861)), now destroyed, were perhaps H. praeteritus.
Hibiscus praeteritus R. A. Dyer [family MALVACEAE]
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