Thespesia populneoides (Roxb.) Kostel.

It is commonly cultivated along the roadside in Karachi.

A medium sized tree. Young parts densely brownish, peltate, hairy, appearing as bronzed or coppery. Leaves long acuminate, peltate hairy, less so on older leaves but never glabrous; in the axil of basal nerves beneath small nectaries generally present; stipules linear, 2-3 mm long, 1 mm broad, caducous. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicel tending to droop, 5-12 cm long, c. 2 mm across, not articulate or inconspicuously so in fruit; bracteole 1 near the base, without bracteate joint, linear. Young fruits and buds when cut exude yellow gum (latex); mature fruit densely peltate hairy, very hard, indehiscent, epicarp dehiscing. Seeds with dense, small, clavate or bulbous hairs.

Distribution: Coastal parts of the Indian Ocean and its islands, probably introduced in W. Africa, cultivated elsewhere.

Thespesia populneoides là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cẩm quỳ. Loài này được (Roxb.) Kostel. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1836.