Hibiscus migeodii Exell

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Photo: Mark Hyde
Via Entrada, Catapu

Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga Forest, Marrumeo

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Status:	Native
Description:	Annual or perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves: lamina up to 7 × 5 cm, broadly ovate to narrowly oblong, sometimes hastate, tending to become shallowly or deeply 3-lobed with stellate hairs on both surfaces; base rounded to cordate; apex acute; margin with irregular blunt teeth. Stipules 2-4 mm long,setaceous. Flowers solitary, axillary, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, red. Epicalyx of 6-7 linear bracts 2-3 mm long. Calyx 6 mm long; lobes 4-5 mm long, lanceolate. Petals 8-9 mm long, obovate. Staminal tube 4-4.5 mm long. Capsule subspherical, pubescent. Seeds with a white cottony floss.
Notes:	This species is generally very similar to Hibiscus allenii. It can only be reliably distinguished by the seeds which are covered in long silky or cotton-like hairs, while being hairless in H. allenii.
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Habitat:	Open woodland and on roadsides
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Worldwide distribution:	Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique
Mozambique distribution:	N,Z,MS,GI
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Content last updated:	Friday 23 June 2017
Literature:	Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 453 - 454.

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