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Talipariti tiliaceum (L.)Fryxell

Synonym	:	Talipariti tiliaceum var. tiliaceum
Family	:	Malvaceae
Local name	:	English-Sea hibiscus,  Malayalam-Thalipparuthi
Flowering and fruiting period	:	December-January
Distribution	:	Pantropics
Distribution in kerala	:	All Districts
Habitat	:	Along streamside and banks of tidal streams and  mangrove forests, also grown as live fence
Uses	:	The inner bark of the tree has been used by Hawaiian Polynesians to make rope. This tree has been widely used as a bonsai in many Asian countries
Key botanical characters: Trees, to 20 m high, bark greyish-brown, smooth; young parts softly stellate-tomentose with prominent annular stipular scars. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate;. Flowers bisexual, yellow, axillary, solitary or in terminal racemes; pedicels 5-30 mm long, club-shaped, stout, minutely stellate-pubescent; involucellar bracts 12 mm long, cupular, ovary superior, ovoid, obscurely 5-angled; styles emergent from staminal column, glandular hairy; stigmas 5, capitate, purplish. Fruit a capsule.