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Family: Malvaceae
Hibiscus brachysiphonius

Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:67 (1859).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Low hibiscus.

Description:
Low sometimes prostrate shrublet usually less than 30 cm high, scabrous with scattered stellate hairs; leaves green, the lower ones obovate, crenate, undivided; the upper ones 3-foliolate or more or less deeply cut into 3 obovate-cuneate usually crenate lobes, blades 15-35 mm long, on petioles 10-25 mm long.

Peduncles 4-14 cm long; epicalyx segments c. 10, free or shortly fused, linear, 5-7 mm long, sparsely hairy; calyx 12-15 mm long, the tube less than half as long as the lanceolate sparsely hairy lobes; petals pink, distally notched or lobed, 15-18 mm long; staminal tube short, with long filaments at the summit.

capsule globular, glabrous, 9-12 mm long; seeds villous.

image of FSA2_Hibiscus_bra.jpg Hibiscus brachysiphonius
Image source: fig 435a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 481.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: mainly Aug. — Nov., but probably in all months.


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Biology: No text

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