Abutilon indicum
guineense
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain beyond Road nr. 4, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain beyond Road nr. 4, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain beyond Road nr. 4, Gorongosa National Park.
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| Synonyms: |
Abutilon asiaticum sensu Garcke Abutilon guineense (Schumach.) Baker f. & Exell Abutilon hirsutissimum sensu Eyles Sida guineensis Schumach. |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual or biennial shrubby herb up to c. 1·5 m tall, branching from the base and densely covered with yellowish stellate hairs. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate to suborbicular-cordate, up to 12 cm long, deep yellowish-green above, rough to the touch and thinly stellate-pubescent, paler and softly woolly beneath; margin finely and rather regularly crenate or dentate; petiole about as long as the corresponding lamina. Flowers solitary in the axils of upper leaves of main stems; pedicels up to 8 cm. long, articulated in the upper 11 mm. Calyx 16–19 mm long, lobed to about the middle; lobes triangular or ovate-triangular, often mucronate, usually distinctly mid-veined. Petals obovate, c. 18 mm long, yellow hairless except near the base. Fruit depressed-globose, c. 15 × 20 mm, very densely pilose; mericarps c. 20, their outer apical angle produced into a triangular-acuminate point or somewhat awned, densely pilose to bearded. |
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| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | indicum: of India |
| Habitat: | Grassland and in open places in bush, often on sandy soil. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 500 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | From Ghana to Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. Also in Madagascar. |
| FZ divisions: | Z,TMS,M |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | Gomalia elma elma (Larval foodplant) |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Friday 13 October 2017 |
| Literature: |
Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Page 495. As Abutilon guineense (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 60. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Abutilon indicumAfrican Plant Database: Abutilon indicum
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