Citation: Fryx. & Hashmi, Bot. Gaz. 132:62 (1971).

Synonymy: Hibiscus farragei F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:241 (1874).

Common name: Desert (rose) mallow, bush (or knobby) hibiscus.

Description:
Shrub often c. 1 m high, with stout annual stems from the woody base; leaves petiolate, suborbicular or broad-ovate, cordate at the base, broadly toothed, shallowly palmately lobed or not, green above, whitish below, 4-15 cm diam..

Involucral segments spathulate, with spreading tips, obtuse, much longer than the fused portion of the epicalyx; sepals 10-18 mm long, a little longer than the epicalyx, the lobes lanceolate, expanding distally into obtuse spreading tips; petals purplish, 4-5 cm long.

Capsule densely stellate-tomentose.

	Radyera farragei leaf, 2 views of the gynoceium and stamens, fruit and seed.
Image source: fig 439g 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. 479; Erickson et al. (1973) Flowers and plants of Western Australia, fig. 434.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in all months.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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