Hibiscus allenii Sprague & Hutch.

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Photo: Helen Pickering
South of Livingstone: road to Maramba Lodge on right, about 50m before the lodge gate

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By road from Hwange NP to main Vic Falls / Bulawayo Rd, Matetsi Safari Area

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Rimiti West, along road from Mutare to Birchenough Bridge.

Photo: Petra Ballings
Chipote, Mahenye, Ndowoyo CL.

Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
TCT-Catapú

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Sandforest loop, Gorongosa National Park

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Status:	Native
Description:	Shrubby perennial herb. Stems covered in yellowish stellate and simple hairs. Leaves, up to 8 × 8 cm, ovate to almost round in outline, usually deeply 3-5-lobed with narrowly oblong-lanceolate lobes, strigose above, stellate-hairy below; margin coarsely serrate; petiole up to 3.5 cm long. Flowers solitary, axillary, up to 1.5-2 cm in diameter, red. Epicalyx of 6-7 bracts, 2-4 mm long, narrowly linear. Calyx up to 9 mm long; lobes narrowly triangular, 7-8 mm long, stellate hairy. Fruit a subspherical capsule, c. 9 × 10 mm, velvety. Seeds smooth and hairless or minutely pubescent.
Type location:	Syntypes from Victoria Falls
Notes:	See the very similar Hibiscus migeodii for comparison.
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Habitat:	In woodland and grassland.
Altitude range: (metres)	Up to 1400 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Botswana, Caprivi-Namibia, Southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
National distribution:	N,MS
Growth form(s):	Perennial, shrub under 2 m.
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Images last updated:	Tuesday 3 November 2015
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 31. Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 450 - 458. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 60. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 84.

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