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Florida Keys Indian Mallow

Abutilon hirtum (Lam.) Sweet

Description

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Perennial herb or undershrub, 0.5-2 m tall. Stem, petiole and pedicel clammy pubescent and usually long, dense simple, spreading hairy. Leaves with 3-15 cm long petiole; stipules 5-10 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, falcate, lanceolate, eventually reflexed; blade 4-18 cm long and broad, densely stellate, glutinous hairy on both sides mixed with simple hairs, more so on the nerves beneath, usually broadly ovate or ovate, cordate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, crenulate-dentate or serrate, yellowish, yellowish green to green. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel 1.5-3 cm and in fruit up to 4 cm long, articulate above the middle. Calyx 6-9 mm long, in fruit up to 12 mm, usually fused to the middle; lobes ovate, acuminate-cuspidate, glutinous, simple and stellate pubescent without, sericeous within. Corolla 3-3.5 cm across, orange-yellow yellow; petals ± 1.5 cm long and 1 cm broad, densely simple hairy, occasionally stellate on the covering margin, more towards apex, broadly obovate, claw ciliate. Staminal coloumn 5-8 mm long, stellate pubescent at the base. it 10-13 mm long, 1.5-2 cm across, truncate, stellate pubescent; mericarps 27 (-30), acute at the back, oblong 10-12 mm long, 6-8 mm broad. Seed 2-3 per mericarp, reniform, 2-2.5 mm across, with minute shining, stellate hairs, sometimes more so at the hilum, brown.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 65 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Description

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Subshrublike herbs, ca. 80 cm tall. Branchlets, leaves, petioles, and pedicels densely hairy, with long hirsute and short gland-tipped hairs, or densely tomentose. Stipules filiform, ca. 5 mm, reflexed; petiole 2-9 cm; leaf blade orbicular-cordate, 3-8 × 3.5-7 cm, both surfaces stellate tomentose, base cordate, margin denticulate, apex cuspidate. Flowers solitary, axillary, large. Pedicel shorter than petiole, apically articulate. Calyx campanulate, lobes 5, ovate, 8-10 mm, densely tomentose. Corolla orange with purple center; petals obovate, ca. 1.5 cm, adaxially glabrous. Filament tube ca. 1 cm, stellate hairy at base. Schizocarp nearly globose, ca. 1 × 1.5 cm, apex truncate; mericarps 20-25, stellate hispid with long hairs. Seeds 3-5, nearly reniform, pilose. Fl. Apr-Jun.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 12: 276, 277 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa, SW Asia (Arabia), Australia].
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 12: 276, 277 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Habitat

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Grasslands; 300-1300 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 12: 276, 277 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Derivation of specific name

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hirtum: hairy
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Abutilon hirtum (Lam.) Sweet Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138870
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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