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Foulsapate Marron

Hibiscus boryanus

Foulsapate Marron
Photo: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Mauritius, Réunion
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hibiscus boryanus is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is a shrub or tree endemic to Mauritius and Réunion. It has been introduced to the Dominican Republic and Leeward Islands.

The species was first described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1824. The homonym Hibiscus boryanus Hook. & Arn. is a synonym of Hibiscus arnottianus subsp. arnottianus.

Other Hibiscus plants

Alyogyne hakeifolia · Alyogyne huegelii · Hibiscus acapulcensis · African rosemallow · Comfortroot · Cape Hibiscus · Hibiscus aponeurus · Hibiscus ×archeri · White rosemallow · Fork-bracted rosemallow · Brackenridge's rosemallow · Lemonyellow rosemallow

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibiscus boryanus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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