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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

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

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

Hermannia johanssenii

Common names: Johanssen’s hermannia (Eng.); heuningbos (Afr.)

Family: Malvaceae

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

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

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

Hermannia scabra

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

Family: Malvaceae

14 / 03 / 2022 | Zoleka May | Kirstenbosch NBG

Hermannia salviifolia

Common names: sage-leaf hermannia (Eng.); geneesbossie (Afr.)

Family: Malvaceae

03 / 01 / 2022 | Thembakazi Dyariwe | Kirstenbosch NBG

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

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

Pavonia columella

Common names: pink pavonia (Eng.); indole ebomvu (isiZulu).

Family: Malvaceae

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

Anisodontea dissecta

Common names: Ruens mallow (Eng.)

Family: Malvaceae

05 / 10 / 2020 | Lindokuhle Sibisi | Compton Herbarium

Hibiscus coddii

Common names: Codd’s red hibiscus (Eng.); bokgobakataba (Sepedi)

Family: Malvaceae

14 / 09 / 2020 | Fergy Nkadimeng | Pretoria NBG

Dombeya kirkii

Common names: river wild pear, river dombeya (Eng.); rivierdrolpeer (Afr.)

Family: Malvaceae

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

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

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

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

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

Sida

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

Azanza garckeana

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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