Hibiscus migeodii Exell
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Photo: Mark Hyde
Via Entrada, Catapu
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Via Entrada, Catapu
Photo: Mark Hyde
Via Entrada, Catapu
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Via Entrada, Catapu
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Via Entrada, Catapu
Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga Forest, Marrumeo
Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga Forest, Marrumeo
Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga Forest, Marrumeo
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Native |
Description:
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Annual or perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves: lamina up to 7 × 5 cm, broadly ovate to narrowly oblong, sometimes hastate, tending to become shallowly or deeply 3-lobed with stellate hairs on both surfaces; base rounded to cordate; apex acute; margin with irregular blunt teeth. Stipules 2-4 mm long,setaceous. Flowers solitary, axillary, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, red. Epicalyx of 6-7 linear bracts 2-3 mm long. Calyx 6 mm long; lobes 4-5 mm long, lanceolate.
Petals 8-9 mm long, obovate. Staminal tube 4-4.5 mm long. Capsule subspherical, pubescent. Seeds with a white cottony floss. |
Notes:
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This species is generally very similar to Hibiscus allenii. It can only be reliably distinguished by the seeds which are covered in long silky or cotton-like hairs, while being hairless in H. allenii. |
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Open woodland and on roadsides |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique |
Mozambique distribution:
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N,Z,MS,GI |
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Content last updated: |
Friday 23 June 2017 |
Literature:
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Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 453 - 454.
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2024).
Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Hibiscus migeodii. https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=178060, retrieved 2 November 2024
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