• 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) : Hibiscus rostellatus Guill. & Perr.
• Habit : Climber
• Comments / notes : Common along outskirts of wet deciduous to semi-evergreen forests in ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : September-January
• Collection Nos : HFP 2709, CJS 12608, CS 1904
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Odisha : Dhenkanal district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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 furcatus. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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