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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Hibiscus sturtii

Citation: Hook. in T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 363 (1848).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Hill hibiscus.

Description:
Small shrub to 1 m but often less than 0.6 m high, pale-grey from the dense velvety tomentum and often rusty-coloured on the youngest parts; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, crenate or dentate, blades 17-40 mm long, on petioles 4-18 mm long.

Peduncles 6-33 mm long; epicalyx of 6-10 segments, united in a cup at least as long as the triangular teeth, about as long as the calyx tube, 4-10 mm long, densely tomentose; calyx 8-15 mm long, fused for at least half its length, lobes triangular or lanceolate, densely tomentose; petals white to purplish with or without a dark basal spot, 27-45 mm long; staminal tube long, with rather shortish filaments towards its apex.

Capsule globular, silky, 8-10 mm long; seeds glabrous or woolly.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The varietal treatment is based on Fryxell (1968) Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. 92:263-264, although Mitchell, in Jessop (1981) Fl. cent. Aust. 209, is followed in treating var. muelleri as a synonym for var. grandiflorus.

Author: Not yet available


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