Hibiscus elliottiae
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Full name: | Hibiscus elliottiae Harv. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Hibiscus ebracteatus Mast. Hibiscus ebracteatus Mast. var. pechuelii Kuntze Hibiscus elliottiae Harv. var. ebracteatus (Mast.) Hochr. Hibiscus elliottiae Harv. var. pechuelii (Kuntze) Hochr. Hibiscus elliottiae Harv. var. subciliatus Hochr. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Suffruticose, finely stellato-pulverulent and canescent; branches virgate; leaves petiolate, ovate, crenulate; stipules setaceo-subulate; peduncles axillary, equalling the leaves; involucel none; calyx-segments lanceolate, acuminate; petals stellate along the dorsal ridge; ovules 3; seeds (young) quite glabrous. A slender undershrub, clothed with very minute, yellowish stellulate pubescence. Leaves 1–1.5 inches apart. Petioles 3–4 lines long. Lamina 0.75–1 inch long, 0.5– 0.75 inch wide. Flowers an inch across, bright scarlet or crimson. Staminal column antheriferous in the middle. Very unlike any Cape Hibiscus; but closely related to H. denudatus (Benth! Sulp. p. 7. t. 3.), a native of Lower California and New Mexico, from which it scarcely differs save in the more minute pubescence, the smaller flowers, and the glabrous seeds. It is also allied to H. micranthus L., a native of North Africa and tropical Asia; but differs in pubescence, want of involucel, and in the glabrous seeds. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) A much-branched undershrub, with rigid, flexuose, shortly jointed branches; the younger ones, as well as the leaves and outer surface of the calyx, densely covered with fine down. Petioles shorter than the leaves, which latter are small, oblong, obtuse, tapering to the base, serrated, 1/2 in. in length, 3–4 long. Stipules deciduous, liguliform. Peduncles solitary, axillary, 1-flowered, longer than the leaves, thickened below the flower. Epicalyx absent. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-parted; segments triangular. Corolla pink, twice the size of the calyx. Capsule subglobular, half as large again as the persistent calyx, bursting loculicidally by 5 bluntish valves. Seeds numerous, clothed with long cottony hairs. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 25 Mar 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/500 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
