Sabdariffa reekmansii (F.D.Wilson) Mwachala & R.L.Barrett, 2025

Barrett, Russell L., Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko, McLay, Todd G. B., Duarte, Marília Cristina, Mwachala, Geoffrey & Hanes, Margaret M., 2025, Reinstatement of Sabdariffa and new combinations to support a monophyletic concept of Hibiscus (Malvaceae: Hibisceae), Australian Systematic Botany 38 (3), pp. 1-97 : 70

Sabdariffa reekmansii (F.D.Wilson) Mwachala & R.L.Barrett , comb. nov.

( Fig. 25 c, d .)

Hibiscus reekmansii F.D.Wilson, Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London, Bot . 29(1): 64–65, fig. 2d (1999). Type: Burundi: Muramwya Province , Mptosa road, 17 May 1979, M. Reekmans 7993 (holo: BR 0000005571444 ; iso: BJA 426026043 ) .

Hibiscus diversifolius var. angustilobus Hauman, Bull. Jard. Bot. Etat. 31: 86 (1961). Type: Democratic Republic of The Congo: Upper Katanga : Sakala Marungu, 2200 m, Apr. 1944, L. Dubois 1157 (holo [mounted on 2 sheets]: BR 0000008952738 , BR 0000008952745 ) .

Descriptions and illustrations

Wilson (1999, pp. 64–65, fig. 2d); Mwachala (2009, p. 42).

Distribution

Burundi, Democratic Republic of The Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania.

Figures

Fig. 25. (a, b) Sabdariffa radiata. Photographs by (a) Frederick Cheong, iNaturalist: 93560526, CC BY-NC. (b) P.S. Sivaprasad, iNaturalist: 198062352, CC BY-NC. (c, d) Sabdariffa reekmansii. Photographs by Bart Wursten, iNaturalist: 109825180. CC BY-NC. (e, f) Sabdariffa riceae. Photographs by Murray Fagg, Northern Territory, APII ©.