An annual or perennial, simple or branched herb. Stem with sparse, simple, bulbous, spiny hairs. Blade ovate and not lobed in the lowermost part, in the upper part 3-7 partite; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, coarsely serrate, nearly glabrous on both sides; stipules 6-8 mm long, filiform; petiole 4-15 cm long, almost somewhat spiny near the top. Flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile; epicalyx segments 7-8, linear, 6-10 mm long, sparsely prickly. Calyx fused at the base, 1-2.5 cm long, wooly, also setose or prickly, lobes long acuminate-aristate, with a swollen, linear gland on the central nerve at the base. Corolla yellow with a crimson centre, 3-5 cm across; petals obovate, 4-6 cm long, 2-4 cm broad. Staminal column inserted. Capsule 1.5-2 cm long, c. 1 cm across, conical, beaked, appressed-setose. Seeds many, 2-3 mm long, brown.
Lectotype: Comm. Hort. 1:35.t.18.1701.
Distribution: It is common in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is difficult to state its native home.
It is cultivated in Pakistan for fibre which is white, soft and silkys. In quality it is said to be equal to jute and may be employed for all purposes for which jute is suitable. The seeds are fed to cattle and poultry, and sometimes oil is extracted which is useful as a lubricant. Various parts are also said to be medicinally important.
Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.
Some earlier relevant feedback:
“This is neither Crotalaria juncea or C. mucronata, the two species known by the name san or sann and used as fiber, nor Hibiscus cannabinus (Ambari, patsan, pitwa) yielding mesta or kenaf fiber. It appears interesting.
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh”
“I find there is lot of confusion between efloras of Pakistan and China. Pakistan Flora considers H. cannabinus as synonym of H. sabdariffa (with calyx covered with whitish tomentum) and H. gossypifolia with same H. sabdariffa L. as synonym with red fleshy calyx. Flora of China considers H. sabdariffa and H. cannabinus as two distinct species, former with red calyx and latter without red calyx and with white tomentum.
In addition all these species unlobed lower leaves and lobed upper leaves. Your plant seems to have even upper leaves without lobes.
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh”
"Based on the Illustration In Eflora ,Org I don't think this can be Hibiscus cannabinus
Tanay"
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