Hibisceae
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Hibisceae is a tribe
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the mallow
Malva
Malva is a genus of about 25–30 species of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow. The genus is widespread throughout the temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of...

 family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Malvaceae
Malvaceae
Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

, subfamily
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Malvoideae
Malvoideae
Malvoideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, which includes in the minimum the genus Malva. It was first used by Burnett in 1835, but was not much used until recently, where, within the framework of the APG System, which unites the families Malvaceae, Bombacaceae, Sterculiaceae and...

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Genera

  • Abelmoschus
    Abelmoschus
    Abelmoschus is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, native to tropical Africa, Asia and northern Australia. It was formerly included within Hibiscus, but is now classified as a distinct genus....

    Medik.
    Friedrich Kasimir Medikus
    Friedrich Kasimir Medikus was a German physician and botanist.He was born at Grambach and became director of the University of Heidelberg and curator of the botanical garden at Mannheim...

  • Anotea (DC.) Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth
    Carl Sigismund Kunth , also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist...

  • Cenocentrum Gagnep.
    François Gagnepain
    François Gagnepain was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain.-References:...

  • Decaschistia Wight
    Robert Wight
    Robert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...

     & Arn.
    George Arnott Walker-Arnott
    George Arnott Walker-Arnott was a Scottish botanist.He studied law in Edinburgh though later became a botanist, holding the position of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in...

  • Fioria Mattei
  • Helicteropsis Hochr.
    Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner
    Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner was a Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist.- References :...

  • Hibiscadelphus
    Hibiscadelphus
    Hibiscadelphus is a genus of Malvaceae from the subfamily Malvoideae endemic to Hawaii. It was known by the Native Hawaiians as hau kuahiwi which means "mountain Hibiscus". The Latin name means "brother of Hibiscus"...

    Rock
    Joseph Rock
    Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist.-Life:He was born in Vienna, Austria, but emigrated to the United States in 1905 and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he eventually became an authority on the flora there...

  • Hibiscus
    Hibiscus
    Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is quite large, containing several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world...

    L.
  • Humbertianthus Hochr.
  • Humbertiella Hochr.
  • Kosteletzkya
    Kosteletzkya
    Kosteletzkya ) is a genus of the plant family Malvaceae that includes the seashore mallow . It includes about 30 species found worldwide....

    C.Presl
  • Macrostelia
    Macrostelia
    Macrostelia is a genus in the tribe Hibisceae - in the family Malvaceae. The genus consists of three species: M. calyculata Hochr., M. involucrata Hochr., and M. laurina Hochr. & Humbert. Macrostelias - all native to Madagascar - distinguish themselves from most other genera in Hibisceae by...

    Hochr.
  • Malachra L.
  • Malvaviscus
    Malvaviscus
    Malvaviscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. Common names for species in this genus include Turk's Cap Mallow, Wax Mallow, Sleeping Hibiscus, and Mazapan...

    Fabr.
  • Megistostegium Hochr.
  • Papuodendron C.T.White
    Cyril Tenison White
    Cyril Tenison White was an Australian botanist.White was born in Brisbane to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa nee Bailey...

  • Pavonia
    Pavonia (plant)
    Pavonia is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The generic name honours Spanish botanist José Antonio Pavón Jiménez .-Selected species:* Pavonia arabica Hochst. & Steud. ex Boiss....

    Cav.
    Antonio José Cavanilles
    Antonio José Cavanilles was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania, his name is abbreviated as Cav...

  • Peltaea (C.Presl) Standl.
    Paul Carpenter Standley
    Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist.Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri...

  • Perrierophytum Hochr.
  • Phragmocarpidium Krapov.
    Antonio Krapovickas
    Antonio Krapovickas is an Argentine agronomist.Krapovickas received a degree in 1948 in agronomic engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and began teaching in 1949 as Professor of Genetics and Systems Botany at the University of Córdoba...

  • Radyera
    Radyera
    Radyera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae.Species include:*Radyera farragei Fryxell & S.H.Hashmi*Radyera urens Bullock...

    Bullock
  • Rojasimalva Fryxell
    Paul Fryxell
    Paul A. Fryxell Paul A. Fryxell Paul A. Fryxell (born 2 February 1927, Moline, Illinois, died July 11, 2011 Claremont, California was an American botanist.He attended Moline public schools and later Augustana College, graduating with a B.A. in 1949, and Iowa State University (M.S., 1951, Ph.D., 1955)...

  • Senra
    Senra
    Senra is a flowering plant genus in the tribe Hibisceae....

    Cav.
  • Symphyochlamys
    Symphyochlamys
    Symphyochlamys is a monotypic genus of plant in family Malvaceae.Species include:* Symphyochlamys erlangeri, Guerke...

    Gürke
    Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke
    Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke was a German botanist. He usually appears in the literature as Max Gürke.- Life :...

  • Talipariti
    Talipariti
    Talipariti is a genus of plants in the mallow family Malvaceae. It consists of 22 species, which are exclusively tropical except for one species whose range extends into temperate areas of Japan and Korea. Some authors treat these species as part of the genus Hibiscus, in which case they form the...

    Fryxell
  • Urena
    Urena
    Urena is a genus of plants which grow in various tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world. Some view the plant as a weed, but others make use of its fiber for various purposes. Extracts from its leaves or roots have broad spectrum antibacterial qualities...

    L.
  • Wercklea
    Wercklea
    Wercklea is a genus of plant in family Malvaceae.Species include:* Wercklea cocleana, Fryx.* Wercklea flavovirens, Proctor* Wercklea grandiflora, Fryx.* Wercklea intermedia, Fryxell...

    Pittier
    Henri François Pittier
    Henri François Pittier was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist, who moved to Costa Rica in 1887, where he founded the Physical Geographic Institute and an herbarium. Henri Pittier National Park in Venezuela is named after him.-References:...

    & Standl.
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