- Family : MALVACEAE
(Mallow Or Hibiscus Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GURHAL FAMILY (गुड़हल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hill slopes and along river banks
- Flower, Fruit : November-February
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
- World Distribution : South Asia and Africa
- Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFR.; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hibiscus canescens. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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