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|accepted_name=Hibiscus furcellatus
|accepted_authority=Lamarck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|place=3: 358. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Hibiscus;Hibiscus furcellatus
|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 furcellatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 252, 253, 254
|treatment_page=page 259
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, or subshrubs, to 2(–4) m, herbage densely stellate-tomentulose throughout. <b>Stems</b> sometimes also with longer, stiff, simple hairs, fine, curved hairs absent or obscured. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules linear, 3–10 mm; petiole 2/3 to equaling blade, shorter in inflorescence, fine, curved hairs absent or obscured adaxially; blade somewhat discolorous, broadly to transversely ovate, unlobed or shallowly 3(–5)-lobed, rarely proximalmost deeply 5–7-lobed, mostly 6.5–11 × 6–12 cm, base cordate, often deeply so, margins unevenly serrate or crenate-serrate, apex broadly acute to short-acuminate, lobes broadly triangular, surfaces stellate-tomentulose, slitlike nectary present abaxially at or near base of midvein. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers in axils of distal leaves, sometimes appearing racemose by reduction of subtending leaves. <b>Pedicels</b> jointed at bases, to 2.5 cm, shorter than subtending petioles; involucellar bractlets 9–12, sometimes wide-spreading, terete, 0.8–1.6 cm, margins minutely pubescent, setose, apex 2-fid or appendaged, sometimes obscurely so. <b>Flowers</b> horizontal or declinate; calyx divided 1/2–2/3 length, campanulate, 1.5–2.4 cm, enlarging in fruit, lobes triangular, with 3 prominent ribs, 2 marginal, 1 medial, medial bearing conspicuous nectary, apices acute or acuminate, variously invested with both minute, stellate hairs and hispid with much larger, simple or stellate, pustular-based hairs, latter often largely confined to veins; corolla narrowly funnelform, petals pink, maroon at base, obliquely obovate, 5.5–9.5 × 2.5–4.5 cm, margins entire to repand or crenate, finely hairy abaxially where exposed in bud; staminal column straight, maroon, 3–4.5 cm, bearing filaments ± throughout, free portion of filaments not secund, 0.5–1.5 mm; pollen maroon; styles dark maroon, 1–3 mm; stigmas dark maroon. <b>Capsules</b> brown, ovoid, 2–2.5 cm, apex acute and apiculate or acuminate, surface obscured by pale yellowish, simple, dense, antrorsely appressed hairs. <b>Seeds</b> olivaceous brown to reddish or purplish brown, angulately reniform-ovoid, 2.8–3.8 mm, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Freshwater marshes, pine flatwoods, sand pine scrub, fill, canal margins, waste areas
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Belize;Guatemala;Honduras;Nicaragua;Panama);n;c South America;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|discussion=<p><i>Hibiscus furcellatus</i> is found primarily in counties along the central and southern parts of Florida’s Atlantic coast, although there are a few inland records as well.</p>
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name=Hibiscus furcellatus
|authority=Lamarck
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Freshwater marshes, pine flatwoods, sand pine scrub, fill, canal margins, waste areas
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Belize;Guatemala;Honduras;Nicaragua;Panama);n;c South America;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication year=1789
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Hibiscus
|species=Hibiscus furcellatus
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