Hibiscus
Perennial or annual shrubs (rarely trees) or herbs, variably stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or lobed; stipules usually present, linear. Flowers bisexual, usually solitary in leaf-axils; epicalyx of c. 6–13 linear lobes, free or shortly united at base; calyx 5-lobed, persistent in fruit; petals 5, free; stamens numerous; style branches and locules each 5, or style-branches united; stigmas 5, capitate; ovules several per locule. Fruit a loculicidal capsule; seeds reniform, sometimes pubescent.
About 300 species world-wide, mostly from tropical and warm-temperate regions; about 69 species in Australia (5 introduced).
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Hibiscus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 332–333. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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