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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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Genus
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ABELMOSCHUS Medic.
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Malv.-Fam. 45. 1787.
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Description
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Herbs or undershrubs, mostly annual, the indumentum commonly hirsute or setose and mostly with simple hairs. Leaves long-petiolate, the stipules caducous, the blade angulate to palmatilobed to palmatifid. Flowers large, axillary, solitary, sometimes in terminal racemes, pedicellate; epicalyx of 4-oo distinct bractlets, per- sistent or caducous; calyx much longer than the epicalyx, spathaceous, irregularly lobed or dentate, splitting laterally at anthesis, circumcissile, adnate to the base of the corolla and deciduous with it; petals obovate, short-unguiculate, adnate to the base of the staminal tube; staminal tube antheriferous from near the base to the apex, the filaments very short; ovary 5-locular, the locules oo-ovulate; styles shortly 5-branched, the stigmas capitate and hirtellous. Capsules usually elongate, acumi- nate, loculicidally dehiscent, with numerous seeds in each locule; seeds glabrous or pubescent.
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Herbs undershrubs
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Distribution
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An Old World genus of about 20 species, of which the two following are ex- tensively cultivated in the warmer regions of both hemispheres and occasionally escape there, but rarely, if ever, become naturalized in the Americas.
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a. Indumentum sparsely setulose or rarely 0; pedicel short, 5-15 mm long, up to. 2.5 cm long in fruit; epicalyx bractlets caducous; petals 3-4(-6) cm long; capsule oblong to narrowly oblong-ovate, 5-angulate, 7.5-16 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm in diam .. 1. A. ESCULENTUS aa. Indumentum long-hirsute, the hairs on stem, petiole and pedicel spreading or usually retrorse; pedicel up to 4 cm long, up to 10 cm long in fruit; epicalyx bractlets persistent; petals (4-)7-8 cm long; capsule ovoid, 5-7 cm long and 2-3 cm in diam. . .2. A. MOSCHATUS
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