MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS103 : Hibiscus panduraeformis Burm. f. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Gularghat | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Malvaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bombay Presidency Poona district, Khamgaon Tank: Kasli | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Abelmoschus panduriformis Hassk. Hibiscus austrinus Juswara & Craven (Unresolved) Hibiscus mollis Zipp. ex Span. (Unresolved) Hibiscus multistipulatus Garcke (Unresolved) Hibiscus panduriformis var. australis Hochr. Hibiscus tubulosus Cav. Hibiscus velutinus DC. (Unresolved) |
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| Description : | Annual, perennial or undershrubs, about 1-3.5 m tall. Stems woody, stout, stem and branches velutinous to tomentose with short simple and shining prickly stellate hairs, about 3-5 mm long. Leaves simple, alternate, palmilobed, broadly ovate-cordate, about 2-16 x 0.6-11 cm across, base 5-9 nerved, midrib usually with obscure nectarines, 3-7 lobed with deltoid acuminate segments, margins coarsely serrate, apex acute to acuminate, with stellate velutinous hairs above and cinereously stellate velutinous to tomentose beneath, petiole stellate velutinous hairy, about 2-15 cm long, stipules 2-3 parted, segments filiform, caducous, about 5 mm long. Inflorescence usually axillary, solitary, or terminal lax racemes, stellate velutinous to tomentose, by the reduction of the upper leaves. Flowers bisexual, bud densely hairy at the apex, pedicel slender, jointed near apex, stellate velutinous to tomentose, about 5-15 mm long, epicalyx 6-10, usually shorter than calyx, base connate, stellate velutinous, persistent, calyx 5 lobed, distinctly nerved, campanulate, lobes lanceolate, base connate till middle, apex acute to obtuse, valvate, sometimes with nectarines, persistent, about 15-20 x 3-5 mm across, corolla showy and large, yellow and purple at the base, obovate, apex obtuse, campanulate, inside white glandular hairy, stellate tomentose outside, about 15-30 x 25 mm across. Staminal column about 10-15 mm long, base wide, filaments dark purple, anthers basifixed, throughout. Ovary superior, 5 locular, about 7-9 mm long, pubescent, axile placentation, style 3 or 5 branched distally, stigma discoid, capitate. Fruit capsule, globose-ovoid, about 1.5 cm across, apex acute, dehiscing loculicidally, with hirsute. Seeds reniform or subglobose, about 2-2.5 mm across, ribbed concentrically, glabrous to densely hairy, brownish. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : |
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