Hibiscus lobatus (Murray) Kuntze

Herb 0.4–0.8 m high. Branchlets with fine bristles (0.2–1 mm long, scattered to very dense, the bristles ascending), hairs whitish. Stipules deciduous or persistent, linear, 3–9 mm long, 0.3–0.6 mm wide, with fine bristles. Mature leaves: petiole 20–65 mm long, indumentum similar to branchlet; lamina ovate to broadly ovate, unlobed to deeply 3-lobed (the lobes longer than wide), 55–95 mm long, 40–85 mm wide, cordate base, serrate to dentate margin, acute to acuminate apex, discolorous, the indumentum denser on lower surfaces, especially on raised midvein and veins, the abaxial surface with indumentum of scattered stellate hairs (rays 0.6–1.3 mm in diam., 3 or 4 rays per hair) and fine bristles, the adaxial surface with sparse simple hairs (to 1.2 mm long), hairs whitish. Distal leaves reduced in size and shape, ovate, broadly ovate or narrowly elliptic. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedunculate, 10–25 mm long, with sparse coarse bristles and moderately dense fine ascending bristles; pedicel 2–6 mm long, indumentum like peduncle, the pedicel marginally wider than peduncle distally; epicalyx notably absent in this species; calyx at anthesis not splitting (5-lobed but not splitting per se), lobes triangular, 3–6 mm long, calyx in fruit 9–11.5 mm long, indumentum of sparse stellate hairs, sparse coarse bristles, scattered fine bristles, nectary absent; petals 11–16 mm long, white, petal spot absent, glabrous adaxially, with very sparse stellate hairs abaxially, near apex, basally with a dense fringe of simple hairs on margins between petals; staminal column straight, 3.6–4.6 mm long, stamens distributed along the distal 3–3.5 mm of the column, stamens scattered, inserted singly, filaments 0.5–1 mm long, anthers white, pollen yellow; style 5-branched, branches 0.4–0.9 mm long, stigmas entire, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, capitate, the hairs 0.1–0.2 mm long. Capsule broadly ovoid, 6.5–8 mm long, sparsely hairy with spreading-ascending simple, soft hairs to 1.2 mm long on margins, shorter erect hairs on remainder, hairs in top half to two thirds of capsule, remainder glabrous, beak present, 1–1.8 mm long. Seeds subreniform to angular-reniform, 1.6–1.8 mm long, hairy with striate and minutely pectinate rusty hairs to 0.1 mm long.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in moist open forests in Hainan in China.

The unripe fruit are used.