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Hibiscus surattensis
Hibiscus surattensis
- Botanic Family
- Malvaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Ci fu rong (Pinyin)
- Chua me
- Vang vang
- Boung djereune
- Son gai
Geographical Habitats
- Australia
- Bhutan
- Borneo
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Central African Republic
- Hainan
- Hongkong
- S. Yunnan - China
- Congo
- Gabon
- Gambia
- India
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Laos
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Philippines
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zambia
Natural Habitats
- Forest margins
- streamsides
- forest
- wasteland.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous prickly climber usually procumbent sometimes scandent annual herb, solitary axillary pilose flowers, pale yellow with dark red centre to 75mm long, 5 petals to 35mm long, bristly calyx, yellow corolla or with darker spot at base to 75mm long, fruit a beaked yellow capsule 12mm x 10mm densely hairy, stems with spreading hairs & recurved prickles, leaves 3-5 lobed, lobes serrated, glabrescent above
Further References
- Mobot
- FOC
- FCP
- Botanicus
- Aluka
- The Plant List 2
- FS
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- GBS