M. Thulin (1999) Malvaceae 2: 40-83

Plants shrubby herbs or subshrubs up to 2 m tall; stems hispid with whitish or pale yellow hairs. Leaves hispid; petioles 1-23 mm long; blades lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or ovate, up to about 4 cm long and 2 cm wide, margins serrate-dentate, sometimes also shallowly 3-lobed, tips rounded to acute r acuminate. Flowers axillary; pedciels 3-50 mm long, articulated nearor above the middle; epicalyx bracts 7-8, about 1.5-7 mm long, subulate; calyces 3-6 mm long, hispides, lobes triangular, 1-veined; petals 5-12 mm long, white to pink, reflexed at anthesis; staminal tubes 2-4 mm long, straight r curved. Capsules 5-10mm long, appressed, puberulous; seeds with a cottony floss.

Hibiscus micranthus grows in deciduous bushland, on rocky slopes, in both alluvial soils and in sand at 30-1350 m. It is sometimes weedy. It isknown from regions N1, N3, C2, and S1-3 of the Flora of Somalia and from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and socotra in addition to being widesread in tropical Africa and eastending eastwards to India. 

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Key to the species of Hibiscus in Somaliland and Somalia.