Synonym: Pariti tiliaceus.
Family: Malvaceae
Chamorro: Pago
Chuukese name: Sinife
English name: Beach Hibiscus
Hawaiian name: Hau
Kosraen name: Lo
Pohnpeian name: Keleu
Yapese name: Gal
Location collected: Beside Nihco store, Paes, Palikir.
Date collected: Deccember 1, 1998
Collected by: BN
Vegetative description: Ovate-Cordate leaf shapes, Mucrunate leaf tips, leaf arrangement is alternate which is pinnately compound on its venation.
Floral description: Yellow flowers with five corolla and calyx and also one style with a dark brown stigma. The flower also sometimes forms a funnelform corolla before it gets bloom.
Seed or fruit description (optional): Seeds or friuts are black or sometimes brown in color including the seed code which breaks apart into four when its getting weaker and ready to fall from the tree.
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