吊灯扶桑 Hibiscus schizopetalus

  • Scientific Name: Hibiscus schizopetalus (Mast.) Hook.f.
  • Ref: Bot. Mag. 106: t.6524. 1880
  • Synonyms: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. schizopetalus (Mast.) Dyer; Hibiscus rosa-sinensis f. schizopetalus Mast.
  • English Common Name: fringed rosemallow, Japanese lantern, coral hibiscus, spider hibiscus.
  • Chinese Common Name: 吊灯扶桑 diàodēng fúsāng
  • Japanese Common Name: フウリンブッソウゲ [風鈴仏桑華] fūrinbussōge
  • Family: Malvaceae
  • Genus: Hibiscus
  • Distribution: Cultivated. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, S Yunnan [native to E Africa; now widely cultivated as an ornamental].
  • Photo: 06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong
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 shortly acuminate. Flowers solitary, axillary on upper branchlets, pendulous. Pedicel slender, 8-14 cm, glabrous or slightly hairy, articulate in middle. Epicalyx lobes 5, lanceolate, 1-2 mm, ciliate, apex obtuse or acute. Calyx tubular, ca. 1.5 cm, sparsely hairy, 5-lobed, usually dehiscent on 1 side. Petals 5, red, ca. 5 cm, deeply pinnatifid, strongly reflexed. Staminal column longer than corolla, 9-10 cm, glabrous, curved upward toward tip; anthers restricted to upper part. Style branches 5, glabrous. Capsule oblong-cylindric, ca. 4 × 1 cm. Fl. year-round. (Flora of China)

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