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  1. Family: Malvaceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Hibiscus L.

      1. Hibiscus elatus Sw.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Cuba, Jamaica.

    Distribution

    Native to:

    Cuba, Jamaica

    Introduced into:

    Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Windward Is.

    Hibiscus elatus Sw. appears in other Kew resources:

    First published in Fl. Ind. Occid. 2: 1218 (1800)

    Accepted by

    • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

    Literature

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

    Sources

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2018. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2018. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0