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Hibiscus bifurcatus

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Fork-leaf Rosemallow

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G4Apparently SecureGlobal Rank
Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.157928
Element CodePDMAL0H040
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVascular Plant
KingdomPlantae
PhylumAnthophyta
ClassDicotyledoneae
OrderMalvales
FamilyMalvaceae
GenusHibiscus
Concept Reference
Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Conservation Status
Review Date2002-09-10
Change Date2002-09-10
Edition Date1998-07-20
Edition AuthorsJ. Struthers (TNC-LASP)
Rank Reasons
Wide range: found Mexico to Brazil, in the Guianas, and in the West Indies, including Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, and Trinidad. Found in swamp, marshes, wet areas at the edge of lakes, tropical moist forest, tropical wet forest.
Range Extent Comments
Mexico to Brazil, the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana), the West Indies, including Jamaica (Portland parish), Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, and Trinidad. In Panama, found in the provinces of Panamá and Colón, and the former Canal Area, including Barro Colorado Island.
Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

In Jamaica, in swamp in forest near sea level; in Panama, known from tropical moist forest in the former Canal Area and Panamá province and perhaps more abundantly from tropical wet forest in Colón, and on Barro Colorado Island possibly restricted to marshes or wet areas at the edge of the lake.
Other Nations (1)
United StatesNNR
ProvinceRankNative
FloridaSNRYes
Plant Characteristics
Economic Value (Genus)No
Roadless Areas (2)
Puerto Rico (2)
AreaForestAcres
El Toro AreaCaribbean National Forest12,584
Mameyes AreaCaribbean National Forest11,150
References (7)
  1. Adams, C. D. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. University of the West Indies. Mona, Jamaica. 848 pp.
  2. Boggan, J., V. Funk, C. Kelloff, M.Hoff, G. Cremers, and C. Feuillet. 1997. Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas. 2nd edition. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 238 pp.
  3. Croat, T. B. 1978. Flora of Barro Colorado Island. Standford University Press, Standford, California. 943 págs.
  4. D'Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: Checklist and Index. Part I: The Introduction and Checklist. Missouri Botanical Garden. Saint Louis, Missouri.
  5. Howard, Richard A. & Allan J. Bornstein. 1989. Flora of the Lesser Antilles, Leeward and Windward Islands. Volume 5. Dicotyledoneae, Part 2. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 604pp.
  6. Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
  7. Kartesz, J.T. 1996. Records considered questionably accepted reports in set of species distribution data at state and province level for vascular plant taxa of the United States, Canada, and Greenland, from unpublished data files at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, December, 1996.