EcoFlora - Abutilon

Abutilon
Family: Malvaceae Max Licher	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources JANAS 27(2) PLANT: Shrubs or subshrubs, usually stellate-pubescent. LEAVES: (in ours) more or less ovate and simple. FLOWERS: solitary in the leafaxils or in panicles or racemes; involucel absent; calyx 5-lobed; petals usually yellow or yellow-orange; stamens numerous; pistil 5-25-carpelled, with as many styles, the stigmas capitate. FRUIT: schizocarpic, of 5-25 mericarps, these sometimes cohering at maturity to form a pseudocapsular fruit. SEEDS: usually 3 per mericarp. NOTES: ca. 200 spp. from the warmer parts of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. (Name of complex origin, probably from the Arabic abu, father of, and Persian tuZa or tuZha, mallow). Fryxell, P. A. 1988. Syst. Bot. Monogr. 25:24-68. REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Epicalyx wanting; stamen-column with anthers at the top; carpels 5- many; ovules 3-9 per carpel; styles 5-many, slender, stigmatic at the top; mature carpels dehiscent across the top, rounded or beaked at the summit, eventually falling from the axis; herbs or shrubs, usually pubescent, with broad, cordate, angular or lobed lvs and axillary, usually yellow fls. 100+, warm reg. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Range Judging in Utah \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Abutilon abutiloides Map not Available Abutilon affine Map not Available Abutilon agnesae Media not available Map not Available Abutilon amoenum Map not Available Abutilon andrieuxii Map not Available Abutilon anglosomaliae Map not Available Abutilon angulatum Map not Available Abutilon asiaticum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon asperifolium Media not available Map not Available Abutilon attenuatum Map not Available Abutilon aurantiacum Map not Available Abutilon auritum Map not Available Abutilon austro-africanum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon barrancae Map not Available Abutilon bastardioides Map not Available Abutilon benadirense Media not available Map not Available Abutilon berlandieri Map not Available Abutilon betschuanicum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon bidentatum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon bivalve Media not available Map not Available Abutilon blepharocarpum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon bracteosum $Media resource of Abutilon bracteosum$ Map not Available Abutilon braunii Media not available Map not Available Abutilon buchii Map not Available Abutilon bussei Media not available Map not Available Abutilon cabrae Media not available Map not Available Abutilon californicum Map not Available Abutilon carterae Map not Available Abutilon cecilii Media not available Map not Available Abutilon coahuilae Map not Available Abutilon crassinervium Media not available Map not Available Abutilon cuspidatum Map not Available Abutilon cyclonervosum Map not Available Abutilon densevillosum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon dentatum Map not Available Abutilon denticulatum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon dispermum Map not Available Abutilon divaricatum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon dubium Media not available Map not Available Abutilon dugesii Map not Available Abutilon eetveldeanum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon eggelingii Media not available Map not Available Abutilon elaeocarpoides Media not available Map not Available Abutilon endlichii Media not available Map not Available Abutilon englerianum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon eremitopetalum Map not Available Abutilon erythraeum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon eufigarii Media not available Map not Available Abutilon figarianum Media not available Map not Available Abutilon fraseri Media not available Map not Available