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. |
| Common names: | |
| 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 |
| Flowering time: | |
| 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: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| 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. Maquet, P. (1983). Malvaceae Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume II Page 390. As Abutilon asiaticum |
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Abutilon indicum subsp. guineense
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