Catalogue no.:	V-1221562
Taxon:	Hibiscus fuscus Garcke
Label:	Hibiscus fuscus
Family:	Malvaceae
Collector:	O.M. Mwangani & J.B. Gillett
Collector no.:	1994
Date:	1972 02 19
Country:	Kenya
Province:	Nairobi City
Locality:	Nairobi, Mathare Valley, above Mathare River, between Mathare Police Station & Mathare Village, at the North of Eastleigh Section
Habitat:	On brown soil near cultivated small Cowpeas gardens surrounded by a recent burnt small grassland, rich in botany with Zornia setosa, Crotalaria, Indigofera, Helichrysum, Hyparrhenia, Sporobolus, Eragrostis, Chloris, Lantana, Lippia, Euphorbia, Ornithogalum, Tephrosia, Polygala, Bidens, Cassia, Polygonum, Vernonia, Hibiscus, Leonotis, Amaranthus, Oxygonum, Chenopodium, Abutilon, Solanum, Commelina, Tagetes, Ricinus, Achyranthes, Cactus, Datura sp. etc
Remarks:	Locally common
Attributes:	A shrub up to 4 ft. in height. Stem hairy. Leaves hairy, serrated. Flowers white. Fruits in a green hard cell, covered with hairy calyx