This is the arrow-leaf okra (scientific name: Abelmoschus sagittifolius? (Kurz) Merr.) is a perennial herb of the genus okra in the mallow family, up to 100 centimeters tall, with branchlets hispid and long-haired. The leaf blade is varied in form, the lower leaves ovate, the leaves above the middle ovate-hastate, arrow-shaped to palmately lobed or parted, the lobes broadly ovate to broadly lanceolate, the margins serrate or notched, the petiole sparsely hirsute. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedicels slender, bracteoles linear, sparsely hirsute; calyx spathe-like, flowers red or yellow, petals obovate-oblong, stamens smooth and glabrous; stylar branches stigmas flattened. Capsule ellipsoid, flowering from May to September.

It occurs in China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Malaysia, and Australia; in China it occurs in Guangdong, Hainan Island, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, and other provinces and regions. It is common on low hills, grassy slopes, open ground, under sparse pine forests, or dry barren land.

Arrow-leaf okra root into medicine, treatment of stomach pain, neurasthenia, external use as expectoration of blood stasis and swelling, bruises and sprains and bone-setting medicine. North Vietnam to the root as dysentery and tonic. The flower is large and beautiful, potted plants can be used for balcony, window sill or steps in front of the decorative, but also can be planted on the roadside, flower beds or rocks and other places to enjoy.