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Herbs or shrubs. Flowers either solitary and axillary or in axillary and terminal racemes. Epicalyx of 7-10 filiform to linear bracts. Calyx 5-lobed or -toothed. Corolla white, purple or pink. Ovary 5-locular; ovules 1 per loculus. Fruit a capsule, this depressed-spherical with 5 prominent angles.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Kosteletzkya Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=944
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Kosteletzkya

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Kosteletzkya[1] is a genus of the plant family Malvaceae that includes the seashore mallow (K. pentacarpos). It includes about 27 species found worldwide.[2]

Although similar in appearance to Hibiscus, Kosteletzkya typically bears more flattened capsules that dehisce loculicidally. The genus was separated from Hibiscus in 1835 by Carl Borivoj Presl, who named it after Vincenz Franz Kosteletzky (1801–1887).[3]

Phylogenetic evidence supports this genus being polyphyletic, with New World and Malagasy species of Kosteletzkya belonging to completely different clades within the Hibisceae. Under a revised nomenclature, only New World species would retain the genus name Kosteletzkya. An alternate revision would be to merge all New World Kosteletzkya species into Hibiscus.[4][5][6]

Species

These species are recognized by Plants of the World Online as of June 2022:[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Garden Dictionary Word: Kosteletzkya".
  2. ^ a b "Kosteletzkya C.Presl | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  3. ^ "Kosteletzkya C. Presl [family MALVACEAE] on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  4. ^ Alexander, Sara N.; Hayek, Lee-Ann C.; Weeks, Andrea (March 1, 2012). "A Subspecific Revision of North American Saltmarsh Mallow Kosteletzkya pentacarpos (L.) Ledeb. (Malvaceae)". Castanea. 77 (1): 106–122. doi:10.2179/11-022. ISSN 0008-7475. S2CID 84203661.
  5. ^ Koopman, Margaret M.; Baum, David A. (2008-04-01). "Phylogeny and Biogeography of Tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) on Madagascar". Systematic Botany. 33 (2): 364–374. doi:10.1600/036364408784571653. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 85215439.
  6. ^ Pfeil, B. E.; Crisp, M. D. (2005). "What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae and comments on paraphyly". Australian Systematic Botany. 18 (1): 49. doi:10.1071/sb04024. ISSN 1030-1887.
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Kosteletzkya: Brief Summary

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Kosteletzkya is a genus of the plant family Malvaceae that includes the seashore mallow (K. pentacarpos). It includes about 27 species found worldwide.

Although similar in appearance to Hibiscus, Kosteletzkya typically bears more flattened capsules that dehisce loculicidally. The genus was separated from Hibiscus in 1835 by Carl Borivoj Presl, who named it after Vincenz Franz Kosteletzky (1801–1887).

Phylogenetic evidence supports this genus being polyphyletic, with New World and Malagasy species of Kosteletzkya belonging to completely different clades within the Hibisceae. Under a revised nomenclature, only New World species would retain the genus name Kosteletzkya. An alternate revision would be to merge all New World Kosteletzkya species into Hibiscus.

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