Month: February 2015

Species: Hibiscus tiliaceus English Name: Cuban Bast Chinese Name: 黄槿 Family: Malvaceae Description: Shrubs evergreen or trees, 4-10 m tall, to 60 cm d.b.h.; bark gray-white. Branchlets glabrous or nearly so, rarely stellate puberulent or stellate. Stipules foliaceous, oblong, ca. 2 × 1.2 cm, stellate pilose, apex rounded, caducous; petiole 3-8 cm; leaf blade nearly orbicular to broadly ovate,…

Species: Hibiscus syriacus English Name: Rosa of Sharon Chinese Name: 木槿 Family: Malvaceae Description: Shrubs deciduous, erect, 1.5-4 m tall. Branchlets yellow stellate puberulent. Stipules filiform-subulate, ca. 6 mm, pilose; petiole 5-25 mm, stellate pubescent adaxially; leaf blade rhomboid to triangular-ovate or broadly lanceolate, variously 3-lobed or entire, 3-10 × 2-4 cm, papery, abaxially puberulent along veins or glabrous,…

Species: Hibiscus schizopetalus English Name: Coral Hibiscus Chinese Name: 吊燈花 Family: Malvaceae Description: Shrubs evergreen, erect, to 3 m tall. Branchlets slender, usually pendulous, glabrous. Stipules subulate, ca. 2 mm, usually caducous; petiole 1-2 cm, stellate; leaf blade elliptic or oblong, not lobed, 4-7 × 1.5-4 cm, papery, glabrous, base obtuse or broadly cuneate, margin dentate, apex acute or…

Species: Hibiscus sabdariffa English Name: Roselle Chinese Name: 玫瑰茄 Family: Malvaceae Description: Herbs annual, erect, to 2 m tall; stems purplish, robust, glabrous. Stipules filiform, ca. 1 cm, sparsely villous; petiole 2-8 cm, sparsely villous; leaf blade dimorphic; blades on proximal part of stem ovate, those on distal part of stem palmately 3-lobed, lobes lanceolate, 2-8 × 0.5-1.5 cm,…

Species: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. cv. Flavo-plenus English Name: Hibiscus ‘Golden Ball’ Chinese Name: 金球朱槿 Family: Malvaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis English Name: Chinese Hibiscus Chinese Name: 朱槿 Family: Malvaceae Description: Shrubs evergreen, 1-3 m tall. Branchlets terete, sparsely stellate pilose. Stipules filiform, 5-12 mm, hairy; petiole 5-20 mm, villous; leaf blade broadly or narrowly ovate, not lobed, 4-9 × 2-5 cm, papery, pilose on veins abaxially only, base rounded or cuneate, margin dentate or lobed, apex…

Species: Hibiscus mutabilis English Name: Changeable Rose-mallow Chinese Name: 木芙蓉 Family: Malvaceae Description: Shrubs or small trees, erect, 2-5 m tall, deciduous. Branchlets, petioles, pedicel, epicalyx, and calyx densely stellate and woolly pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, 5-8 mm, usually caducous; petiole 5-20 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate to round-ovate or cordate, 5-7-lobed, 10-15 cm in diam., papery, abaxially densely stellate…

Species: Gossypium barbadense English Name: Barbados Cotton Chinese Name: 海島棉 Family: Malvaceae Description: Subshrubs or shrubs, perennial, 2-3 m tall, hairy or only hairy on petiole and veins on abaxial surface. Branchlets dark purple, angular. Stipules lanceolate-falcate, ca. 10 mm, usually caducous; petiole longer than leaf blade, with black glandular spots; leaf blade 3-5-lobed, 7-12 cm in diam., lobes…

Species: Abutilon striatum English Name: Redvein Abutilon Chinese Name: 金鈴花 Family: Malvaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Abelmoschus manihot English Name: India Abutilon Chinese Name: 磨盤草 Family: Malvaceae Description: Herbs subshrublike, annual or perennial, erect, many branched, 1-2.5 m, entire plant gray puberulent. Stipules subulate, 1-2 mm, curved outward; petiole 2-4 cm, gray puberulent and sparsely hairy, hairs silklike, ca. 1 mm; leaf blade ovate-orbicular or nearly orbicular, 3-9 × 2.5-7 cm, densely gray stellate…