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|accepted_name=Hibiscus schizopetalus
|accepted_authority=(Dyer) Hooker f.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Mag.
|place=106: plate 6524. 1880
|year=1880
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|common_names=Fringed rose-mallow or hibiscus;Chinese lantern
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. schizopetalus
|authority=Dyer
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Gard. Chron., n. s.
|publication_place=11: 568. 1879
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Hibiscus;Hibiscus schizopetalus
|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>[[Hibiscus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hibiscus schizopetalus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 252, 253, 254, 262
|treatment_page=page 261
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, to 3(–5) m. <b>Stems</b>: new growth essentially glabrous, lines of curved hairs absent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules narrowly triangular, 1–2.5 mm; petiole to 1/3 blade, adaxial groove hairy with minute, ± sinuous hairs; blade lanceolate-ovate to ovate, unlobed, 3.5–10.5 × 1.5–4 cm, base rounded to cuneate, margins coarsely serrate in distal 2/3–3/4, apex acute to short-acuminate, ± pinnately veined, surfaces glabrate, nectary present abaxially on midvein near base. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers in axils of distal leaves. <b>Pedicels</b> jointed at middle or distally, 7.5–15 cm; involucellar bractlets 6–8, triangular, 0.06–0.18 cm, margins not ciliate. <b>Flowers</b> pendulous; calyx divided 1/8–1/2 length, often 3-lobed, tubular to narrowly funnelform, (1–)1.4–2 cm, lobes broadly triangular, apices acute to obtuse, glabrate, neither accrescent nor inflated, nectaries absent; petals strongly recurved, rose-pink to red, darker on veins, broadly to narrowly obovate, deeply and irregularly pinnatifid-laciniate, 4–6.5 × 1.5–3.5 cm, glabrous; staminal column straight or curved apically, pendulous, pink to red, 5.5–9 cm, bearing filaments in distal 1/3–1/2, free portion of filaments not secund, 4.5–7.5 mm; pollen yellow; styles pink to red, 7–15 mm; stigmas pink to red. <b>Capsules</b> brown, oblong-cylindric, 3.5–4 cm, glabrous or puberulent. <b>Seeds</b> brown, angulately reniform-ovoid, 2–3 mm, smooth, glabrous or puberulent. <b>2n</b> = 34, 40, 42, 45 (all cultivars).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;e Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;elsewhere in Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Apparently native only in Kenya, Tanzania, and perhaps Mozambique, <i>Hibiscus schizopetalus</i> is widely cultivated in the Tropics and occasionally escapes. The occurrence in many <i>H. rosa-sinensis</i> cultivars of semipendulous, long-pedicelled flowers with variously</p><!--
--><p>crenate, undulate petals suggests the involvement of <i>H. schizopetalus</i>. Hybrids between <i>H. schizopetalus</i> and <i>H. rosa-sinensis</i> can be called H. ×archeri W. Watson. Typification of <i>H. schizopetalus</i> was discussed by M. Cheek (1989).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Hibiscus schizopetalus
|authority=(Dyer) Hooker f.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. schizopetalus
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;e Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;elsewhere in Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Mag.
|publication year=1880
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_471.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Hibiscus
|species=Hibiscus schizopetalus
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