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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Hibiscus L.

HIBISCUS L., 1753

Fls perfect, 5-merous, axillary or terminal, solitary to paniculate; involucre of few to several bracts. Calyx 5-toothed; petals adnate to staminal column; anthers attached below the apex. Fr. a dry ± dehiscent capsule. Herbs, shrubs or trees with palmately veined or lobed lvs. Widespread genus of perhaps some 200 spp. It is doubtful whether either spp. found in N.Z. is indigenous; both are now rather rare.

Key

1
Fls solitary; stems not prickly; lvs deeply lobed
1. trionum
Fls in racemes; stems prickly; lvs not or only shallowly lobed
2. diversifolius
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