Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, 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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection
- Herbarium
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Accession
- K001971135
- Filed as
- Hibiscus physaloides Guill. & Perr.
- Det. by
- F.J. Simbiano
- Collected
- Konomou, G. ; Algassimou Kanté, Bafodé Camara 2024-04-05
- Origin
- GN
- The sheet
- View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)
A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.
Native range 38 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | ANG | AFRICA |
| Benin | BEN | |
| Burkina | BKN | |
| Cameroon | CMN | |
| Cape Verde | CVI | |
| Central African Republic | CAF | |
| Chad | CHA | |
| Comoros | COM | |
| Congo | CON | |
| DR Congo | ZAI | |
| Eritrea | ERI | |
| Eswatini | SWZ | |
| Ethiopia | ETH | |
| Gabon | GAB | |
| Gambia | GAM | |
| Guinea | GUI | |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | |
| Gulf of Guinea Is. | GGI | |
| Ivory Coast | IVO | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Liberia | LBR | |
| Madagascar | MDG | |
| Malawi | MLW | |
| Mali | MLI | |
| Mauritania | MTN | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Niger | NGR | |
| Nigeria | NGA | |
| Northern Provinces | TVL | |
| Senegal | SEN | |
| Sierra Leone | SIE | |
| Sudan-South Sudan | SUD | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Togo | TOG | |
| Uganda | UGA | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Zimbabwe | ZIM |
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 10 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 acendens Walp.
- Abelmoschus ascendens Walp.
- Hibiscus adscendens G.Don
- Hibiscus ascendens Walp.
- Hibiscus atroviolaceus Baill.
- Hibiscus hornei Baker
- Hibiscus physaloides var. genuinus Hochr.
- Hibiscus ribesifolia Guill. & Perr.
- Hibiscus ribesifolius Guill. & Perr.
- Hibiscus variabilis Garcke
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.
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