Family: Malvaceae

Description: 

Shrubs, 1-4 m high; stems woody and glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, truncate or somewhat tapering at base, serrate, crenate or entire, sometimes dentate towards apex, acute to acuminate at apex, 3-5 nerved at base. Flowers axillary, solitary. Epicalyx lobes 5-8, connate at base. Calyx campanulate, 1-3 cm long; lobes connate to middle, lanceolate. Corolla infundibular, 6-12 cm across, red, white, pink, yellow or orange yellow; petals obovate, entire or crenulate-lobed. Staminal column to 5 cm long, exserted beyond corolla. Capsules rarely formed.