Sabdariffa arnhemensis (F.D.Wilson) McLay & 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 : 28

Sabdariffa arnhemensis (F.D.Wilson) McLay & R.L.Barrett , comb. nov.

( Fig. 8 e, f .)

Hibiscus arnhemensis F.D.Wilson, Austral. J. Bot. 22: 175, fig. 3, 8 (1974). Type: Australia: Northern Territory: among sandstone boulders along East Alligator River (12°29′S, 132°58′E), 18 May 1968, N. B.Byrnes 812 (holo: DNA A0014527 ; iso: CANB 246023 , PERTH 01599852, US) .

Descriptions and illustrations

Wilson (1974, p. 175, fig. 3, 8); Wilson and McLay (2022).

Distribution

Northern parts of the Northern Territory, Australia.

Figures

Fig. 8. (a, b) Sabdariffa altissima. Photographs by Troos van der Merwe, iNaturalist: 159201030, CC BY-NC. (c, d) Sabdariffa aphela. Photographs by Russell Barrett, NE Kimberley. (e, f) Sabdariffa arnhemensis. Photographs by Brandon Sideleau, iNaturalist: 208492735. CC BY-NC.