Hibiscus schinzii Gürke

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Picture: Bart Wursten
Maleme Dam camp

Synonyms:	Hibiscus swynnertonii Baker f.
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Description:	More or less prostrate perennial herb. Leaves, up to 6 × 6 cm, shallowly to very deeply 3-5-lobed, stellate pubescent above, stellate-tomentose below; base cordate; margin serrate-crenate. Flowers solitary, axillary, up to 8 cm in diameter,yellow with a dark maroon-red centre. Epicalyx of 7-9 bracts, up to 5 mm long, filiform. Calyx 10-20 mm long; lobes elongate triangular, joined at the base for 4-5 mm, densely covered with bristly stellate hairs. Fruit a subspherical capsule, c. 12 mm in diameter, densely stellate pubescent
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Hibiscus schinzii
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Hibiscus schinzii
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Hibiscus schinzii
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Hibiscus schinzii
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Hibiscus schinzii
JSTOR Plant Science: Hibiscus schinzii
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Hibiscus schinzii
Tropicos: Hibiscus schinzii
West African Plants database: Hibiscus schinzii