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Updated 6/13/2023
Family Malvaceae
HAWAII - CULTIVATED
Hibiscus ovalifolius
YELLOW ROSE MALLOW
Erect or sprawling shrub native to Tropical Africa, it is cultivated
in gardens and was once sparingly naturalized on Kaua'i. This a not
a native Hawaiian species. In 1919 those naturalized plants were mistaken as an endemic species
and given the name Hibiscus rockii. In 1990 the authors
of Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
placed this within the synonymy of Hibiscus calyphyllus, and
subsequently reassigned it as a synonym of Hibiscus ovalifolius
in the Manual's 2003 Supplement. |
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