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Taxon

Hibiscus mutabilis L.

Protologue Sp. Pl. 2: 694. 1753 [1 May 1753]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Hibiscus mutabilis, 62.1271--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 19 Sep 03. 082.jpg

Hibiscus mutabilis, 62.1271--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 19 Sep 03. 082.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Hibiscus mutabilis, 62.1271--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 19 Sep 03. 083.jpg

Hibiscus mutabilis, 62.1271--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 19 Sep 03. 083.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Hibiscus mutabilis, 62.1271--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 19 Sep 03. 081.jpg

Hibiscus mutabilis, 62.1271--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 19 Sep 03. 081.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan; introduced into 34 botanical countries across Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

62.1271

September 19, 2003

Location

United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)

37.87544, -122.238724

Location Remarks

Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malvales

Family

Malvaceae

Genus

Hibiscus

Specific Epithet

mutabilis

Authorship

L.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.9

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#274,050 of 335,497

Top 82%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →