Pentapetes

Pentapetes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It contains a single species, Pentapetes phoenicea, called the noon flower and occasionally cultivated.[1] The flower is also known as "Midday Flower" or "Scarlet Mallow". This is so named as the flowers open around noon, and closes around next day early morning.

Pentapetes
Pentapetes phoenicea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
Genus: Pentapetes
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Species:
P. phoenicea
Binomial name
Pentapetes phoenicea
Synonyms

Scarlet Mallow, Midday/Noon Flower

Pentapetes phoenicea fruit and seeds

The plant grows around 4โ€“6 ft in height and the branches are long and spreading. Leaves are 6โ€“10 cm in length, toothed at the margins, usually having a broad base and tapering to a pointed tip. Flowers are born in the axils of the leaves with 5 large deep red colored petals. The fruit is a 5-valved, rounded, hairy capsule, about 1 centimetre in diameter. The seeds, which are not winged, occur 8โ€“12 in two series in each cell.

The flower is native to a wide region of tropical South Asia from Ceylon and India to northern Australia and the Philippines.

References

  1. The Plant List. Access on September 14, 2017.


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