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Hermannia muricata

Hermannia muricata
Common names: muricate doll’s rose (Eng.); poprosie, klokkiesbos (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae

... in the Western Cape. Hermannia belongs to the family Malvaceae, which includes the hibiscus and jute families. ... temperate and tropical regions. Noteworthy members of the Malvaceae are Gossypium , the cotton plant and Theobroma ...

14 / 04 / 2025 | Karen Wall | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Hibiscus waterbergensis

Hibiscus waterbergensis
Common names: Waterberg hibiscus (Eng.); Waterberg hibiscus (Afr.).
Family: Malvaceae

... From fresh material (Photo SAPlants@Wikicommons). In most Malvaceae, the nectary consists of carpets or cushions of ... nectaries is quite homogenous, but other genera in the Malvaceae (e.g. Triumfetta ) may have variously shaped ... approximately 300−440 species and is a member of the Malvaceae family. One of the outstanding characteristics of ...

03 / 02 / 2025 | Stoffel Petrus Pieter Bester | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Grewia rogersii

Grewia rogersii
Common names: Waterberg raisin (Eng.); Waterberg-rosyntjie (Afr.); mulembu (Tshivenda)
Family: Malvaceae

... Tiliaceae, but this family has been sunk into family Malvaceae and its former members are now placed mostly within ... subfamilies Tilioideae, Brownlowioideae and Grewioideae. Malvaceae, commonly known as the mallow family, is a big ...

13 / 05 / 2024 | Sithembile Ndlovu | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Hermannia johanssenii

Hermannia johanssenii flowers
Common names: Johanssen’s hermannia (Eng.); heuningbos (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae

01 / 01 / 2024 | Nonkululeko Ntshangase | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Grewia microthyrsa

Grewia microthyrsa
Common names: sand raisin (Eng.), sandrosyntjie (Afr.), mufuka (Tshivenda), nsihana (Xitsonga), umunywane, ilalanyathi, ikolo (isiZulu).
Family: Malvaceae

30 / 10 / 2023 | Nompumelelo Nkosi | Pretoria NBG
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Cienfuegosia hildebrandtii

Cienfuegosia hildebrandtii
Common names: small cotton bush, wedge-leaf false-hibiscus, small fly-mallow (Eng.)
Family: Malvaceae

... in East Africa and Madagascar. This species belongs to the Malvaceae, the family famous for its star-shaped hairs. The ...

24 / 05 / 2022 | Swinky Nkosi | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Hermannia scabra

Hermannia scabra
Common names: scabrid doll’s rose, gold cups (Eng.) poprosie (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae

14 / 03 / 2022 | Zoleka May | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Hermannia salviifolia

Hermannia salviifolia
Common names: sage-leaf hermannia (Eng.); geneesbossie (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae

03 / 01 / 2022 | Thembakazi Dyariwe | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Grewia caffra

Grewia caffra
Common names: climbing raisin, yellow starflower (Eng.); rankrosyntjie (Afr); ilalanyathi, umunyumunu, iphata, iklolo, isaka, isilandula (isiZulu); likholo, (siSwat
Family: Malvaceae

04 / 10 / 2021 | Robert Jooste | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Corchorus olitorius

Corchorus olitorius
Common names: Egyptian spinach, Indian jute, wild jute, bush okra, Jew’s mallow, West African sorrel, jute mallow, tossa jute (Eng.); wilde jute, Indiese jute (Af
Family: Malvaceae

02 / 08 / 2021 | Meshack Nethavhani | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
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Pavonia columella

Pavonia columella
Common names: pink pavonia (Eng.); indole ebomvu (isiZulu).
Family: Malvaceae

05 / 07 / 2021 | Ashton Welcome | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Anisodontea dissecta

Anisodontea dissecta
Common names: Ruens mallow (Eng.)
Family: Malvaceae

05 / 10 / 2020 | Lindokuhle Sibisi | Compton Herbarium
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Hibiscus coddii

Hibiscus coddii
Common names: Codd’s red hibiscus (Eng.); bokgobakataba (Sepedi)
Family: Malvaceae

14 / 09 / 2020 | Fergy Nkadimeng | Pretoria NBG
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Dombeya kirkii

Dombeya kirkii
Common names: river wild pear, river dombeya (Eng.); rivierdrolpeer (Afr.)
Family: Malvaceae

02 / 03 / 2020 | Sisanda Alakhe Velembo-Mhlauli | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Grewia flava

Grewia flava
Common names: velvet raisin, wild currant, brandybush (Eng.); rosyntjiebos, brandewynbos, wilderosyntjie (Afr.); mothetlwa (Nso.); umlalampunzi, unhlwampunzi (Zul.)
Family: Malvaceae

... family (Tiliaceae), but was later placed in the family Malvaceae because of certain doubts surrounding the placement ...

09 / 12 / 2019 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Grewia retinervis

Grewia retinervis
Common names: Kalahari raisin, false sandpaper raisin, Kalahari donkey berry, Kalahari grewia, Kalahari raisin bush, kalahari-sand grewia, kalahari sand raisin (Eng
Family: Malvaceae

... is today placed by most authors in the mallow family Malvaceae, in the expanded sense as proposed by in the APG. ... and similar genera – and have thus been merged into the Malvaceae. Together with the bulk of the former ...

18 / 03 / 2019 | Cathbert Makgakga | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Waltheria indica

Waltheria indica
Common names: meidebossie (Afrikaans); isikolanjiba (IsiNdebele); mokhutesela (Sepedi); lexutasela (Sesotho); seretwane (Setswana.); delelemukula (Tshivenda)
Family: Malvaceae

... This species is quite distinct from other species of Malvaceae in having a 1-locule ovary, whereas the other ...

12 / 11 / 2018 | Siyabonga Tibini | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Dombeya tiliacea

Dombeya tiliacea
Common names: forest wild pear, forest dombeya, little-dog-rose (Eng.); bosblompeer, bosdrolpeer (Afr.), ibunda (isiZulu), utyibo (isiXhosa)
Family: Malvaceae

... resemblance to linden trees and lime trees, Tilia spp. (Malvaceae) The common name drolpeer or wildpear comes from ...

06 / 08 / 2018 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Sida

Sida cordifolia
Common names: fanpetals, mallows, sidas (Eng.)
Family: Malvaceae

... in high rainfall areas. Sida Unlike other genera in the Malvaceae, Sida is less important as a garden plant, as ...

26 / 02 / 2018 | Sushant Sharma | KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium
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Azanza garckeana

Azanza garckeana (Bart Wurston)
Common names: azanza, quarters, Rhodesian tree-hibiscus, slime-apple, snot-apple, tree-hibiscus (Eng.); slymappel, snotappel (Afr.); caglacagla, ixaguxagu, ixakuxak
Family: Malvaceae

... calyx relates this genus to only 2 other genera in Malvaceae, namely Gossypium and Thespesia . However, the ... produced from the heartwood. As with many other species of Malvaceae, the fibers of the inner bark can be used to make a ...

18 / 12 / 2017 | Ashton Welcome | National Herbarium Pretoria
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