*Abelmoschus Medikus. Subfamily: Malvoideae. Tribe: Hibisceae. Common name: Okra, Gumbo.
A genus of about 15 species, herbs, of the Old World tropics. Perhaps better included in a broadly circumscribed Hibiscus (Pfeil & Crisp 2005), but Hanes et al. (2024) and Barrett, Hanes, & McLay (2023) preferred retention of Abelmoschus (and other Hibiscus relatives) at genus rank.
References: Barrett, Hanes, & McLay (2023); Bates (2015a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2015); Bayer & Kubitzki (2003) In Kubitzki & Bayer (2003); Hanes et al. (2024). Show full citations.
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