WorldFloraDB - Hibiscus meyeri

Characteristics

Perennial herb or shrublet, 0.01-2.00 m high; appressed stellate-hispid. Leaves relatively small, broadly ovate to suborbicular, often 3-lobed, apex rounded, margins serrate, base obtusely cuneate, 3-5-nerved, stellate-hispid. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles up to 35 mm long, articulated ± 10 mm below apex. Epicalyx of 7 filiform bracts. Calyx with lobes elliptic-triangular, joined at base, pubescent. Petals reflexed, obovate, stellate-pilose outside, white turning pinkish to purplish. Staminal tube 6-8 mm long; filaments ± 0.5 mm long. Flowering time summer. Fruit a subglobose capsule. Seeds with white or brownish silky floss.

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Shrubby, slender; branches straight, strigose with oppressed stellate bristles; leaves (small) on short petioles, 3-nerved, ovate-oblong, obtuse, unequally toothed and somewhat 3-lobed, the lateral lobes very short, appressedly stellato-pubescent; stipules setaceous, rigid; peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, jointed below the flower; invol. of about 10 linear-subulate pubescent leaflets, shorter than the deltoid-acuminate calyx lobes; capsule puberulous, seeds smooth.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

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Uses	medicinal
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Cultivation

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Germination treatment	soaking
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