Common Name

Velvet-leaf Hibiscus

Family

Malvaceae

Notes

Shrub to 90cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-4cm long, flat, grey, hairy, margins toothed, with blunt tips. Flowers pink, or mauve to purple with 5 petals, sometimes darker at the base, solitary on stems originating at the bases of the leaves. Endangered Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 480

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibiscus~krichauffianus

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Ian Fraser, Sturt National Park, SA