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Hibiscus tiliaceus L.
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A medium sized tree with stellate tomentum, glabrescent. Leaves 3-20 (-30) cm long, 2-20 (-30) cm broad, orbicular to ovate, cordate at base, usually entire or undulate to crenate, acute to acuminate, almost glabrous above, hairy below, lower surface at base with linear glands on 1-5 nerves, coriaceous; stipules foliaceous, clasping the stem, 1-3 cm long, 0.5-1 cm broad, ovate, caducous. Flowers solitary, clustered at the end of branches; pedicel c. 1 cm long, in fruit up to 2 cm, stellate pubescent. Epicalyx cupular, 5-10 mm long, 7-12 toothed; teeth deltoid or triangular, 2-3 mm long and broad. Calyx 1/3 to 1/2 fused, 1.5-3 cm long; lobes lanceolate, c. 1 cm broad, each with linear gland on the central nerve. Corolla 5-8 cm across, yellow with or without crimson centre; petals obovate, 4.5-7 cm long, 4-5 cm broad, claw slightly hairy on margin. Staminal column c. 3 cm long. Ovary oblong, pubescent, 5 mm long. Capsule 2-3 cm long, c. 2 cm broad, beaked, densely stellate hairy, 10 celled. Seeds many, dark brown 4-5 mm long, reniform, stellulate hairy.
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French Guiana: grand maho. Surinam: maho, mao.
"Trees, to 20 m high, bark greyish-brown, smooth; young parts softly stellate-tomentose with prominent annular stipular scars. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules 15-40 x 8-14 mm, oblong-lanceolate, lateral, enclosing the apical bud, many veined, stellate-puberulent externally, glabrous internally, deciduous; petiole 4-18 cm long (commonly subequal to the blade), slender, minutely stellate pubescent; lamina 6-20 x 9-20 cm, broadly orbicular, base cordate or truncate, apex shortly acuminate, margin entire or crenate; coiaceous, minutely stellate hairy above, densely stellate, tomentose beneath; 7-9 nerves from the base, palmate, prominent, with a linear nectary at the base of main 1-5 nerves beneath, lateral nerves 5-7 pairs pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellow, axillary, solitary or in terminal racemes; pedicels 5-30 mm long, club-shaped, stout, minutely stellate-pubescent; involucellar bracts 12 mm long, cupular, segments 7-12, triangular to lanceolate, divided to the middle, densely stellate pubescent outside, sericeous within; calyx 15-20 mm long, campanulate, 5-fid or parted below the middle, the lobes lanceolate-acute, densely stellate-pubescent, with nectary medially positioned on midrib of each lobe (nectaries sometimes absent); corolla yellow with or without a red centre changing to pink, softly stellate-tomentose, 6-8 cm across; petals 5, obovate; staminal column 25-30 mm long, glabrous, surrounded by 5 triangular teeth, antheriiferous throughout; filaments 1-3 mm long; anthers reniform; ovary superior, ovoid, obscurely 5-angled; styles emergent from staminal column, glandular hairy; stigmas 5, capitate, purplish. Fruit a capsule, 1.5-2 x 1.5-2 cm, subglobose or slightly obovoid, subequal to calyx, densely pubescent with yellowish or brownish, pericarp thin, mesocarp fibrous, 5-locular; seeds many, reniform, blackish-brown, papillose."
Borssum Waalkes (Blumea 14: 30-38. 1966) recognized a series of six SubSpe. Chinese material belongs to the nominate SubSpe, Hibiscus tiliaceus subsp. tiliaceus.
Fiber from the bast of Hibiscus tiliaceus is used on Hainan to make fishing nets.
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Habit: Tree
Economically it is quite an important plant. The fibre obtained from the bark is of fair quality. The roots, bark, leaves and flowers are said to be variously used in medicine.
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Hibiscus boninensis Nakai; H. tiliaceus var. heterophyllus Nakai; H. tiliaceus var. tortuosus (Roxburgh) Masters; H. tortuosus Roxburgh; Pariti boninense (Nakai) Nakai; P. tiliaceum (Linnaeus) A. Jussieu; P. tiliaceum var. heterophyllum (Nakai) Nakai; Talipariti tiliaceum (Linnaeus) Fryxell.
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Comments: Fryxell's (2001) Talipariti tiliaceum includes material treated by Kartesz (1999) as Hibiscus tiliaceus (= Talipariti tiliaceum var. tiliaceum) (native to southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania; possibly native to Hawaii [may have been introduced by early Polynesian settlers]; exotic in Florida) as well as material treated by Kartesz (1999) as Hibiscus pernambucensis (= Talipariti tiliaceum var. pernambucense) (native to at least Puerto Rico [Kartesz 1999] and apparently other parts of the Caribbean and Central and South America).
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"Along streamside and banks of tidal streams and mangrove forests, also grown as live fence"
Sea shores, along streams, sandy soil; near sea level to 300 m.
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