Hibiscus debeerstii De Wild. & T. Durand

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Habit
Margin of Itigi thicket and woodland
Kaputa GMA, Nsama District,
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Margin of Itigi thicket and woodland
Kaputa GMA, Nsama District,
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Description:	Perennial herb up to 1.5 m tall; stems with fuscous-stellate hairs and a finer pale green stellate pubescence. Leaf-lamina 2–6 × 0.3–2 cm, lanceolate to linear-oblong, stellate-pubescent to stellate-pilose on both surfaces, somewhat scabrid, apex acute, margin serrate, base obtuse to rounded 3–5-nerved; petiole up to 15 mm long; stipules 4–6 mm long, filiform. Flowers 1.5–3 cm in diameter, red, solitary, axillary and forming racemes or panicles at the apices of the stems by reduction of the upper leaves; peduncle up to 3.5 cm long, hairy like the stems, articulated 5–8 mm below the apex. Epicalyx of 6–7 (10) bracts, equalling or exceeding the calyx; bracts 4–7 mm long, filiform. Calyx up to 5 mm. long, fuscous-pilose; lobes 4–5 × 2.2–5 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Petals 12–18 mm long, obovate. Staminal tube 3 mm long; free parts of filaments 1–2 mm long. Style-branches 2–5 mm long. Capsule 8–10 × 10–12 mm, depressed-subglobose, puberulous. Seeds with white silky floss.
Type location:	DRC
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Derivation of specific name:	debeerstii: named after R.P. Debeerst, who collected the type specimen in DRC, then known as the Belgian Congo..
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Flowering time:	Apr – Aug
Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique
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Growth form(s):	Perennial.
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Literature:	Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 94 - 95. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 203. Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 450 - 452. (Includes a picture).

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