Family: Malvaceae
Hibiscus trionum
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 697 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Bladder ketmia.
Description:
Low erect annual to c. 60 cm high, with scattered stellate hairs which are longer on the calyx; leaves palmatipartite into 3 or 5 oblong to spathulate bluntly toothed segments, the lower sometimes simple, shiny, dark-green, the blades 15-60 mm long, on petioles 15-50 mm long.
Peduncles 20-60 mm long; epicalyx of 7-12 free linear segments, 6-9 mm long, sparsely long-hairy; calyx 13-23 mm long (at the lower end of this range when in flower, enlarging in fruit), fused for less than half its length, lobes triangular, sparsely long-hairy, inflated and membranous in fruit; petals pale-yellow, purplish at the base, 15-27 mm long; staminal tube much inflated below, moderately long, with many shortish filaments.
Capsule globular, hairy, enclosed within the inflated calyx, 10-16 mm long; seeds glabrous, smooth, blackish.
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Image source: fig 435e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
There is some divergence of opinion on whether to treat the Australian forms of this species as being made up to 2 distinct species, as varieties or as a single taxon. It is also not known to what parts of the world it is strictly native.
Author:
Not yet available
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