{"id":13065,"date":"2020-11-10T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/lavatera-flava\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:25:40","slug":"lavatera-flava","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/lavatera-flava\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavatera flava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hermaphrodite shrub, up to l(1.5) m in height, erect, not very dense. Trunk promptly branched, with greyish bark. Branches open, extended-upright; older branches with greyish bark, glabrous; younger branches green, covered by a dense greenish-yellowish tomentum of small, stellate and erect hairs. Leaves (2-7 \u00d7 2.5-9 cm) wider than long, suborbicular, with 3-5 rounded lobes, which may be \u00b1 pronounced, green and with stellate hairs on both sides; leaf blade flat, undulate or slightly folded, margin with wide obtuse teeth and from cordate to subtrucate at the base. Petiole as long as the leaf. Flowers in small groups of 2-5, axillary, with the peduncle shorter than the petiole of the leaf on whose axil the flower is borne. Epicalyx with ovate parts, as long as half of the calyx. Calyx with ovate lobes, longly acuminate. Epicalyx and calyx covered with the same tomentum as branchlets and leaves. Petals yellow or whitish-yellowish [in the region of Kert-Gane \u2014N of Morocco\u2014 they are purple (<em>L. flava <\/em>var. <em>purpurea <\/em>Maire)]. Stamens large and showy, with white filaments, fused, and white anthers. 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