Compilation
Abutilon engleranum

Suffrutex up to c. 2 m. tall, sparsely branched, finely velutinous and in addition with usually rather dense patent long soft white hairs, the indumentum usually light-yellowish-grey but turning brown and gradually disappearing with age; stems rather stout, terete, ultimately light brown or purplish with numerous short fine longitudinal fissures. Leaf-lamina c. 3–8 (16) cm. in diam., thin but firm in texture, usually ± suborbicular, sometimes slightly 3-lobed, apex with a rather long acumen or occasionally rounded, margin irregularly and rather coarsely serrate, ± biserrate or somewhat crenate, base cordate (usually deeply so), upper surface finely velutinous, deep greyish-green to yellowish-green, lower surface paler, ash-grey or pale green with prominent veins; petiole as long as or longer than the corresponding lamina, slender, terete or somewhat flattened at the base. Flowers yellow, axillary; pedicels c. 7 cm. (up to 8 cm. in fruit) long, articulated towards the apex. Calyx c. 15 mm. long, campanulate, divided beyond the middle; lobes 10 × 5 mm., ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate to aristate, velutinous inside. Petals c. 16 × 10 mm., shortly pubescent outside and along the upper edge inside. Staminal tube c. 12 mm. long, conical, rather densely stellate-pubescent. Fruit about 15 mm. in diam. at the apex, about 12 mm. near the base, obconical-turbinate, shallowly umbilicate, stellate-hairy, the sides enclosed by the slightly accrescent calyx. Mericarps 16–20, c. 10 × 4 mm., somewhat oblique, usually 3-seeded; the apical edge slanting, convex to nearly straight, the inner angle almost continuous with the large ventral tooth, the upper outer angle very acute or produced into a short awn up to 2 mm. long. Seeds 3 × 2–5 mm., minutely punctate-verruculose.