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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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Species
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ABELMOSCHUS ESCULENTUS (L.) Moench
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PlaceOfPublication
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Method. P1. 617. 1794.
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Synonym
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Hibiscus esculentus L., Sp. P1. 696. 1753.
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Description
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Herb or suffrutex, the stem up to 2.5 m high, glabrous or sparsely setulose. Leaves with the petiole 5-20 cm long, setulose, the stipules subulate, up to 12 mm long, setulose, early caducous; blade subcircular in outline and up to 20 cm in diam, cuneate to truncate to cordate at the base, palmatilobed, -cleft or -fid, the segments deltoid-ovate-to narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, acute at the apex, finely to coarsely serrate at the margin, 3- or 5(-7)-palminerved, sparsely setulose espe- cially along the prominent veins beneath. Flowers solitary in the uppermost leaf axils, the pedicel stout, terete, enlarged near the apex, 5-15 mm long, up to 2.5 cm long and much thickened in fruit, setulose; epicalyx bractlets 8-12, linear-lanceollate, 12-15 mm long, setulose, caducous; calyx 5-dentate, up to 2.5 cm long, setulose; petals asymmetrical, rounded at the apex, 3-4(-6) cm long, yellow with dark red or purple basal spots; staminal tube about l2 as long as the corolla; styles exceed- ing slightly the staminal tube. Capsule oblong to narrowly oblong-ovate, long- acuminate, 5-angulate, 7.5-16 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm in diam, densely short-hirsute when young, at length glabrescent; seeds globose-reniform, ca 5 mm in diam, glabrous or minutely stellate-puberulus or sometimes pilose.
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Habit
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Herb
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Common
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Okra gumbo
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Note
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In Panama, it is called colloquially najut, and the seeds are used like coffee and in chocolate (cf. Standley 25279).
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Common
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najut
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Balboa, weedy field, wild and cult., Standley 30891 (US); id., old garden, Standley 25573 (US); Sosa Hill, Balboa, edge of finca, Standley 25279 (US). PANAMA: Tocumen, Agronomy School Farm, Dwyer 1979 (MO).
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