Annual herb ; up to 60 cm high . Stems erect to spreading , branched , terete , stellate-hairy . Leaves alternate , 25-35 long and broad , simple , petiolate ; lower leaves orbicular to broadly ovate ; upper leaves palmately lobed into 3 deep lobes , each lobe futher shallowly lobed , apex obtuse , margin irregularly dentate , stellate-pubescent ; petiole 2–7 . 5 cm long , sparsely to densely pubescent with scattered stellate setae ; stipules linear . Inflorescences solitary , in the leaf axils ; pedicel 15–60 mm long . Flowers white-yellow with a purple base , 1 . 5-3 cm across ; epicalyx of 7-12 linear segments , hispid ; calyx 12-15 mm , 5-lobed , purple-veined , persistent , inflated and enclosing the fruit ; corolla 15-18 mm , obovate ; staminal tube 4–10 mm long ; filaments 3 mm long . Fruit capsule , ± 1 . 5 cm , oblong , villous , dark brown to black when dry , enclosed by the inflated calyx . Seeds 2–3 x 1–2 mm , grey-brown , wedge-shaped , tuberculate . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Abelmoschus collinsianus (Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray) Alph.Wood
Hibiscus africanus Mill.
Ketmia trionum (L.) Scop.
Trionum trionum (L.) Wooton & Standl.
No data
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Black-eyed Susan
Bladder Hibiscus, Bladderweed, Flower of an Hour, Flower-of-an-hour
Venice Mallow
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.
