Hibiscus_palmatus © OBG
Annual or perennial herb ; up to 35 cm high . Stems and branches prostrate to ascending , hispid hairy . Leaves alternate , 2-10 cm , petiolate , palmately lobed into 3-5 deep lobes , each lobe with apex obtuse , margin entire or irregularly dentate , crisped pubescent on the nerves . Inflorescences solitary , in leaf axils ; pedicels 0 . 5–2 cm long , articulated near the base . Flowers pale-yellow with a purple base , 1 . 5 cm across ; epicalyx of 7–8 bracts ; bracts 12–15 mm long , ± filiform or narrowly linear ; calyx 8-10 mm , 5-lobed , green-veined ; corolla ± 10 mm , obovate . Fruit capsule , ± 10 mm long , subglobose , sparsely pubescent . Seeds 3 x 2 mm , angular-subreniform , brown , adpressed pubescent . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Hibiscus aristaevalvis Garcke
Hibiscus djabinianus Parsa
Hibiscus intermedius A.Rich.
Hibiscus intermedius var. aristaevalvis (Garcke) Hochr.
Hibiscus richardii I.Riedl
Hibiscus scandens Dalzell & A.Gibson
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Not known
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
