Flora of North America species comparison

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Thespesia

thespesia
Habit Trees [shrubs].
Stems

erect, glabrous or hairy when young, usually glandular-punctate, not viscid.
Leaves

stipules persistent or deciduous, lanceolate or falcate;

blade ovate, unlobed [3-lobulate], base deeply cordate [shallowly cordate to ± truncate], margins entire, surfaces glabrate [hairy], with abaxial foliar nectaries.
Inflorescences

axillary solitary flowers, [sometimes aggregated apically];

involucel present, bractlets caducous, 3, distinct.
Flowers

calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes truncate [to 5-lobed], not ribbed;

corolla yellow [white or rose], with [without] maroon spot at base, usually fading pinkish orange;

staminal column usually included;

ovary 3–5-carpellate, style 3–5-branched;

stigmas clavate.
Fruits

capsules, erect, somewhat inflated, oblate, coriaceous [ligneous], lepidote [glabrous or hairy], indehiscent [dehiscent].
Seeds

3–5 per locule, short-hairy [glabrous].
x

= 13.

Thespesia
Distribution
from USDA
Asia; Africa; Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea); Australia [Introduced, Fla.; introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, n South America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 17 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 372. Authors: Paul A. Fryxell†, Steven R. Hill.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Subordinate taxa
T. populnea
Name authority Solander ex Corrêa: Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 9: 290, plate 25, fig. 1. (1807)
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