Abelmoschus angulosusWight & Arn.

WFO wfo-0000510836 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Abelmoschus angulosus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2014-12-28 / obs. 151151014
Abelmoschus angulosus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151151017
Abelmoschus angulosus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151151007
Abelmoschus angulosus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151151024
Abelmoschus angulosus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151151028
Abelmoschus angulosus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151151033
Abelmoschus angulosus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151151034

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Abelmoschus angulosus is native: Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam CambodiaIndiaJawaLaosMyanmarPakistanSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Abelmoschus angulosus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cambodia CBD ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Abelmoschus angulosus var. grandiflorus Thwaites
  • Abelmoschus angulosus var. mahendragiriensis R.C.Misra
  • Abelmoschus angulosus var. purpureus Thwaites
  • Hibiscus angulosus var. grandiflorus (Thwaites) Mast.
  • Hibiscus angulosus var. purpureus (Thwaites) Mast.
  • Hibiscus molochinus Alston
  • Hibiscus primulinus Alston
  • Hibiscus setinervis Dunn
  • Hymenocalyx variabilis Zenker

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.