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Grape Leaved Mallow, tropical fanleaf |
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| Vernacular name | Van kapas | |
| Scientific name | Hibiscus vitifolius (Linn.) | |
| Family | Malvaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Leaves 2.5-6 cm long, 2-5 cm broad, subcordate-rounded at base, acute at apex, serrate to crenate, not lobed or shallowly 3 to 7-lobed, broadly ovate to orbicular, densely pubescent on both surfaces stalk 1-5 cm long. Flowers occur singly in leaf axils. | Photo Gallery |
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| Fruit/ seed | Capsule-oblong, beaked, pilose at the top, longer than the calyx. Seeds-black | |
| Habitat and distribution | Field bunds, aerobic fields | |
| Flowering and fruiting | September to October | |
| Associated with | Bund flora | |
| Habit | A shrub, up to 2.5 m tall, usually densely velvet-hairy all over. It seems like grape leaves, hence the species name vitifolia. | |
| Inflorescence | Flower stalked, sepals fused below the middle, pale yellow to yellow with a large, purple centre. Petals | |
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