Sabdariffa elongatifolia (Hochr.) Mwachala & R.L.Barrett, 2025

Barrett, Russell L., Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko, McLay, Todd G. B., Duarte, Marília Cristina, Mwachala, Geoffrey & Hanes, Margaret M., 2025, Reinstatement of Sabdariffa and new combinations to support a monophyletic concept of Hibiscus (Malvaceae: Hibisceae), Australian Systematic Botany 38 (3), pp. 1-97 : 44

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1071/SB24013

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16958039

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC0268-C358-D57D-FCE1-FD329DE4F9C1

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scientific name

Sabdariffa elongatifolia (Hochr.) Mwachala & R.L.Barrett
status

comb. nov.

Sabdariffa elongatifolia (Hochr.) Mwachala & R.L.Barrett View in CoL , comb. nov.

Hibiscus elongatifolius Hochr., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. View in CoL Genève 4: 117 (1900). Type: Cameroon: Sanaga , Urwaldgebiet, 1897, G.A. Zenker 1440 (lecto, here designated: P 00151947 ; isolecto: BM 013723930 (drawing BM 013832980 ), E 00934006 , G 00014188 , G 00014189 , K 000240745 , L 2366875 , M 0109182 , P 00151948 , WAG 0002310 About WAG ).

Descriptions and illustrations

Hochreutiner (1900, p. 117); Wilson (1999, p. 72, fig. 3g).

Typification

We here select the sheet at P with the best material matching the protologue as lectotype of Hibiscus elongatifolius .

Notes

There is a superficial resemblance between this species and Hibiscus squamosus Hochr. but S. elongatifolia can readily be separated by the divided stipules. Occasionally confused with S. aspera .

Distribution

Cameroon.

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malvales

Family

Malvaceae

Genus

Sabdariffa

Loc

Sabdariffa elongatifolia (Hochr.) Mwachala & R.L.Barrett

Barrett, Russell L., Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko, McLay, Todd G. B., Duarte, Marília Cristina, Mwachala, Geoffrey & Hanes, Margaret M. 2025
2025
Loc

Hibiscus elongatifolius

Hochr. 1900: 117
1900
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