Hibiscus peralbus Fryxell

Fryxell, P.A. (1987) Systematic Botany 12: 277. Type: Western Australia, Mitchell Plateau, Lone Dingo site, 14 35 S, 125 45 E, 10 May 1983, Fryxell & Craven 4033; holo: CANB; iso: Numerous.

Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub 1-1.5 m tall.

Leaf blade margin lobed or serrate. Pale stiff hairs present on the stems, petioles and leaf blades giving the plant a sandpapery feel. Stipules linear, about 5-6 mm long clothed in scattered hairs.

Epicalyx of about 5-7 lobes. Epicalyx, pedicels and peduncles clothed in simple hairs. Anther filaments fused to form a column attached to the base of the petals.

Fruits globose, about 9 mm diam., clothed in very short hairs. Calyx and epicalyx persistent at the base of the fruit. Seeds densely clothed in white hairs. Endosperm reniform in outline, confined to a thin layer on the inner surface of the testa.

Features not available.

Endemic to WA. Altitudinal range not known. Grows in monsoon forest and coastal vine thickets.