4983.000 Abutilon Mill.

Description of the genus

Biennial to perennial herbs or shrubs, usually with stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate, usually ± ovate with a cordate base. Flowers yellow, orange or apricot, usually opening in the afternoon. Epicalyx 0. Fruit of (5-)10-c.40 mericarps arranged round a central axis; (1-)2-3(-9)seeded. Not an easy genus to name. As in Sida it is ± essential to have ripe mericarps.

Derivation of name: Arabic vernacular name for a species of this genus

Worldwide: Over 100 species in tropical and warm zones

Zimbabwe: 3 cultivated taxa.

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

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Species	Content
megapotamicum A. St.-Hil. & Naudin
striatum Dickson
× hybridum Siebert & Voss	Image

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Flora of Botswana: Abutilon
Flora of Burundi: Abutilon
Flora of Caprivi: Abutilon
Flora of Malawi: Abutilon
Flora of Mozambique: Abutilon
Flora of Zambia: Abutilon
Flora of Zimbabwe: Abutilon

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