Hibiscus cannabinus L.

  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Malvales

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • All Determinations

    Hibiscus cannabinus L.

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Hibiscus cannabinus Linnaeus, Syst., ed. 10, 1149, 1759.
Sub-shrubby plant with prickly and somewhat stellate-pubescent stems. Leaves long
petiolate, the lower ones cordate, the upper often deeply palmately lobed and toothed.
Flowers S cm. or more wide, yellow with red center, bractlets and calyx lobes densely
bristly, on short, axillary pedicels. Capsule subglobose, bristly.
Weed in clearings and waste areas (9879). Native name, fouiao.
DEPAUW UNIV.
HERBARIUM.
HERBARIUM _
T.G.YUNCKER 27980
1RUMAN G. YUNCKER HERBARIUM
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY (DPU)
PURCHASED BY NY IN 1987
Presented to DPU
by T. G. YunQKef
Flora of Niue Island
Herbarium of Bernice P. Blshop^Mniieuin
Hibiscus cannabinus L.
Pis. yellow with maroon 'eye' . In
waste land near Ponukula plantation,
65 m. alt. Jan. 25, 1940.
‘ fou Igo*
Coxa. T. G. Yuncxss
Dn.	«
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