Talipariti
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Talipariti is a genus of plants in the mallow family 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...

. 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
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...

, in which case they form the section Hibiscus sect. Azanza.

Species

A partial list of species is:
  • T. bowersiae
  • T. elatum (Hibiscus elatus) - Native to Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

     and Jamaica
    Jamaica
    Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

     but naturalized elsewhere.
  • T. glabrum (Hibiscus glaber) - Bonin Islands in the northwest Pacific ocean.
  • T. hamabo (Hibiscus hamabo) - Japan and Korea
  • T. hastatum (Hibiscus hastatus) - native to the Society Islands
    Society Islands
    The Society Islands are a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. They are politically part of French Polynesia. The archipelago is generally believed to have been named by Captain James Cook in honor of the Royal Society, the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands;...

     in the South Pacific, and cultivated elsewhere
  • T. macrophyllum
    Hibiscus macrophyllus
    Hibiscus macrophyllus is an ornamental plant which can be made into Hibiscus tea....

    (Hibiscus macrophyllus) - various areas of South Asia and Southeast Asia
  • T. tiliaceum (Hibiscus tiliaceus) - native to many areas around the world
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