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Cravenia panduriformis

Hibiscus panduriformis

Cravenia panduriformis
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub

About

Cravenia panduriformis (synonym Hibiscus panduriformis), the yellow hibiscus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to much of Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Yemen, the Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Sulawesi, and northern Australia. An erect shrub reaching 2.5 m (8 ft), it is a minor weed of cotton.

The species was first described as Hibiscus panduriformis by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768. In 2024 Todd G.B. McLay and Russell Lindsay Barrett placed the species in the genus Cravenia as C. panduriformis.

Other Hibiscus plants

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

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

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