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1. Abelmoschus Medik.

Malvenfam..: 45. 1787; K.Schum. in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. III, 6: 49. 1890; Hochr., Candollea 2: 81. 1914; Borss.Waalk., Blumea 14 (1): 89. 1966; C.Bayer & Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (ed. Kubitzki) 5: 285. 2003; Y.Tang et al. in C.Y. Wu et al., Fl. China 12: 283. 2007.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; often tomentose or prickly hairy. Leaves palmately lobed, crenate or dentate, without glands. Flower solitary, axillary. Peduncle not articulate. Epicalyx lobes 4–20, persistent. Calyx mostly spathaceous, splitting asymmetrically at anthesis and falling with corolla. Corolla large. Staminal column 5-toothed at apex, shorter than corolla. Ovary 5-locular; ovules many in each locule; style 5-branched; stigmas 5, capitate or discoid. Capsules elongate, loculicidal, pubescent or hispid, 5-angled. Seeds many, reniform or globose.

About 15 species in tropical and subtropical regions; 6 species in Thailand, 3 of them introduced.