Herbs or somewhat shrubby plants, pubescent with small, stellate and/or long, rigid, simple or stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate, stipulate, the blade entire to 5-parted, sometimes more or less hastate or sagittate. Flowers solitary in the axils or in open, axillary or terminal panicles or racemes; epicalyx of 5 to 10 narrow bract-lets, persistent, rarely obsolete; calyx cupuliform, 5-parted, persistent; petals erect or spreading, often pubescent outside; staminal tube elongate, usually 5-dentate, the anthers numerous, reniform; ovary 5-loculate, each locule 1-ovulate, the ovules ascending; style branches 5, the stigmas capitate. Capsules depressed-globose, prom-inently 5-angled, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds reniform.
Carpels 1-seeded; capsule eventually breaking into 5 deciduous segments, each composed of halves of adjacent carpels; seeds smooth; otherwise as in Hibiscus. 30, N. Amer., Afr., Madag.
Capsule depressed-globose with 5 prominent angles, dehiscing loculicidally.
Ovary 5-locular; loculi 1-ovulate; style 5-branched, stigmas capitate.
Flowers solitary, axillary or in axillary or terminal racemes.
Epicalyx of 7–10 filiform to linear bracts.
Calyx 5-lobed or 5-toothed.
Shrubs or herbs.
Seeds reniform.