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Hibiscus mutabilis
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Hibiscus mutabilis L., Sp. Pl. 694. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 334. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 99(71). 1915; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 390. 1993; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 148. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 86. 1997; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 416. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 119. 2009.
Hibiscus sinensis Mill., Gard. Dict. (ed. 8). 2. 1768.
Abelmoschus mutabilis (L.) Wall. ex Hassk., Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor 198. 1844.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chinappratti
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Cotton Rose, Confederate Rose, Changing Rose
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Description:
Bushy shrub or small tree, 5-7 m high; younger parts dense with stellate or simple glandular hairs. Leaves suborbicular, cordate, 10-22 cm long, palmately 3-7 lobed; lobes 3-angled, coarsely dentate or irregularly crenate at margin, acute or long-acuminate at apex, densely stellate-pubescent above, glabrate or sparsely stellate-pubescent beneath, 7-11 nerved at base. Petioles 5-15 cm long, tomentose; stipules linear-lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, tomentose. Flowers axillary, solitary or in terminal subcorymbose racemes; pedicels 6-12 cm long, jointed 1-2 cm below apex. Epicalyx lobes 8-12, linear-lanceolate, 0.2-2.5 x 0.1-0.2 cm, bent down, eventually spreading. Calyx lobes connate to middle, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-4 x ca 1 cm, accrescent, densely stellate-pubescent with glandular hairs throughout above, densely stellate-hairy at margin inside and with long simple hairs in middle and base, 5-nerved, yellowish green. Corolla 10-15 cm across, white fading pink. Petals 5 or multiples of 5, suborbicular, short-clawed, 6-8 cm long, sparsely stellate-hairy outside, glabrous inside with long stellate hairs at base. Staminal column shorter than corolla, white or yellowish white, antheriferous throughout. Ovary globose, truncate, ca 6 mm, white-silky-hairy, 5-loculed; ovules many in each locule. Capsules subglobose, emarginate, 2-2.5 cm long, densely covered with stellate, simple glandular and long setose hairs. Seeds reniform, ca 2 mm long, dorsal and dorsolateral walls with radiating simple to 6-armed to 2 mm long hairs, brownish.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-December
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated as ornamental
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Distribution:
Native of China
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Muthukulam
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