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Taxon:  Hibiscus cannabinus L.



Summary
Genus:
Hibiscus
Family:
Malvaceae
Subfamily:
Malvoideae
Tribe:
Hibisceae
Nomen number:
19012
Place of publication:
Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:1149. 1759
Verified:
05/22/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Hibiscus cannabinus (1 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Bates, D. M. 1965. Notes on the cultivated Malvaceae. 1. Hibiscus. Baileya 13:83-85.
  3. Borssum Waalkes, J. v. 1966. Malesian Malvaceae revised. Blumea 14:63-64. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea
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Common names
English
bastard-jute –
bimli-jute –
Deccan-hemp –
Indian-hemp –
Java-jute –
kenaf –
kenaf hibiscus –
French
chanvre de Bombay –
chanvre de Guinée –
German
Ambari –
Dekkanhanf –
Gambohanf –
Jawa-Jute –
Kenaf –
India (Hindi)
ambari –
mesta –
patsan –
pitwa –
Italian
ibisco –
Japanese Rōmaji
kenafu –
Spanish
apocino –
Swedish
kenaf –
Transcribed Chinese
da ma jin –
Transcribed Korean
yangma –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire (e.)
Cultivated (widely cult. in tropics)
Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere in tropics)
Uncertain
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (suggests it may be indigenous, but this is contradicted by other sources)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Materials
fiber (fide F Zamb; Econ Bot 1:334-350. 1947) –


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