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Common Name : Musk mallow
Family : Malvaceae
An erect, annual or biennial, hirsute herb or
undershrub.
0.3-1.8 m tall with a stout taproot. Usually
clothed with long deflexed hairs.
6-22 cm long and 3-24 cm wide, cordate at base,
mostly orbicular to transversely elliptic in
outline, but variable in shape; lower ovate,
acute; upper palmately 3-7-lobed; margins
crenate, serrate or irregularly toothed, hairy on
both surfaces.
Flowers usually solitary, axillary, sometimes in
few flowered racemes; corolla bright yellow
with a purple centre.
Capsules 6.5-7.5 cm long, oblong-lanceolate,
acute, fulvous-hairy.
Subreniform, black.
Abelmoschus moschatus Medik.
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