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|accepted_name=Lagunaria
|accepted_authority=(de Candolle) Reichenbach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Consp. Regn. Veg.,
|place=202. 1828/1829
|year=1829
}}
|common_names=Norfolk Island hibiscus;cow itch tree
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hibiscus sect. Lagunaria
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=section
|publication_title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication_place=1: 454. 1824
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Lagunaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lagunaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Genus Laguna, for Andrés de Laguna, 1499 – 1559 Spanish botanist and physician to Pope Julius III, and - aria, similarity
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 218
|treatment_page=page 276
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> evergreen. <b>Stems</b> erect; bark gray, smooth; twigs stellate-hairy and with peltate scales, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules deciduous, inconspicuous, filiform; blade ovate, unlobed, base rounded, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers; involucel cuplike, bractlets persistent or deciduous, 3–5, often obscure or suppressed, connate basally. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes unribbed, wide-ovate, apex acute to rounded or irregularly lacerate; corolla wide-campanulate, pink to rose-pink, fading white; staminal column exserted; ovary 5-carpellate; ovules (3–)5–10 per locule; style not branched; stigmas club-shaped. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, erect to pendulous, ovate, 5-locular, somewhat indurate-chartaceous, brown stellate-hairy covered with fine spicules, filled with irritant hairs reminiscent of fiberglass. <b>Seeds</b> (3–)5–10 per locule, glabrous.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Pacific Islands (Lord Howe Island;Norfolk Island);e Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 1 or 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The pinnately veined leaves of <i>Lagunaria</i> are exceptional for the family. The Queensland, Australia, population has recently (2006) been reclassified as L. queenslandica Craven, but there is controversy about its distinctness.</p>
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name=Lagunaria
|author=Steven R. Hill
|authority=(de Candolle) Reichenbach
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hibiscus sect. Lagunaria
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Pacific Islands (Lord Howe Island;Norfolk Island);e Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Consp. Regn. Veg.,
|publication year=1829
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_502.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Lagunaria
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