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Hibiscus fluvialis Juswara & Craven

Reference
Blumea 50(2):398,Fig.4 (2005)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub (or subshrub), to 3 m high. Sand. Riverine areas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 16 March 2007

Scientific Description

Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 30-80 mm long, 18-55 mm wide, not lobed; margins entire; hairy, with Simple hairs (without tubercle bases), with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves). Flowering time May or August. Distribution Botanical Province Northern, IBRA Bioregion North Kimberley and Dampierland.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 11 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Dampierland, Northern Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzroy Trough, Mitchell.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.