Talipariti tiliaceum |
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Habit | Trees 3–8 m. Leaves: petiole commonly subequal to blade, with pubescence like stem; stipules sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 15–40 × 8–14 mm; blade discolorous, palmately 7–9-veined, mostly 6–13 cm, coriaceous, apex short-acuminate, surfaces minutely and densely stellate-hairy or nearly glabrous abaxially. | ||||
Inflorescences | flowers sometimes aggregated distally with reduced leaves; involucel cupuliform. |
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Pedicels | minutely stellate-hairy; involucellar bractlets connate. |
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Flowers | calyx deeply divided, 1.5–2 cm, lobes not gland-dotted, densely stellate-hairy, with nectary on each midrib; staminal column pallid, apically 5-dentate, glabrous; style emergent from staminal column; stigmas 5. |
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Capsules | 5-locular, 1.5–2 × 1.5–2 cm, subequal to calyx, antrorsely hairy, hairs yellowish or brownish. |
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Seeds | 4 mm, minutely papillate. |
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Talipariti tiliaceum |
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Distribution |
Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Asia [Introduced, Fla.] |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 370. | ||||
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Synonyms | Hibiscus tiliaceus, Pariti tiliaceum | ||||
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Fryxell: Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 23: 258. (2001) | ||||
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