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1. Abelmoschus angulosus Wall. ex Wight & Arn.wfo-0000510836

Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 53. 1834; Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 2: t 951. 1845; Hochr. Candollea 2: 87. 1924; Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 434. 1963; Borss.Waalk., Blumea 14: 104. 1966; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvaceae S. Penins. India: 46. 1996.— Hibiscus angulosus (Wight & Arn.) Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. 1: 758. 1840; Mast. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 341. 1874; Gagnep. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 1: 432. 1910.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Perennial herb or subshrub 1–2 m tall; stem stout, erect, hollow, covered with stiff yellowish patent hairs, sometimes with minute stellate hairs or glabrous. Leaves 5–20 cm in diam., palmately 5–7-lobed, lobes triangular, ovate to lanceolate, base of leaves cordate, apex lobes acute to acuminate, margin crenate to serrate, short appressed stiff simple hairs on both surfaces, glabrescent; basal veins 5–7. Petiole 1–20 cm long, hispid. Stipules linear to lanceolate 1–2 by 0.2–0.4 cm, hispid, sometimes stellate hairy. Flower large, solitary or upper leaves reduced forming a long erect raceme. Peduncles 3–7 cm long, accrescent to 10 cm in fruit, with dense stiff patent yellowish hairs. Epicalyx large, angular, completely enveloping the bud; lobes 4–5, ovate to triangular, 2–3.5 by 1–2 cm, apex acute, outer surface slightly hispid, inner surface simple appressed hairy, white stellate hairy along margin. Calyx 3–3.5 cm long, membranous, covered with minute stellate and simple hairs. Petals broadly obovate, 7–8 by 5–6 cm, apex rounded, glabrous. Staminal column ca 2 cm long, glabrous; filaments 0.5–1 mm long. Ovary ovoid, velutinous and scattered long hairs; style ca 2.2 cm long; stigmas reddish. Capsule ovoid to oblong, 3–5 by 2–3.5 cm, apex acute to acuminate, glabrescent with stiff patent simple hairs and stellate hairs, inner surface puberulous. Seeds globose to reniform, ca 3 mm long, with concentric, minutely stellate-hairy ribs.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Chiang Dao).

Distribution : India (type), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, N Sumatra, Java.

Ecology : At edges of forests, along waysides, waste areas.