| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Malvaceae |
| Synonym | Hibiscus tiliaceus L. |
| Local Name | Velipparuthi |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark greyish-brown, smooth; young parts softly stellate-tomentose with prominent annular stipular scars. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules 15-40 x 8-14 mm, oblong-lanceolate, lateral, enclosing the apical bud, many veined, stellate-puberulent externally, glabrous internally, deciduous; petiole 4-18 cm long, slender, minutely stellate pubescent; lamina 6-20 x 9-20 cm, broadly orbicular, base cordate or truncate, apex shortly acuminate, margin entire or crenate; coiaceous, minutely stellate hairy above, densely stellate, tomentose beneath; 7-9 nerves from the base, palmate, prominent, flowers bisexual, yellow, axillary, solitary or in terminal racemes; fruit a capsule, subglobose or slightly obovoid, densely pubescent with yellowish or brownish, pericarp thin, mesocarp fibrous, 5-locular; seeds many, reniform, blackish-brown. |