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Abutilon mauritianum

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Name

Identification
Abutilon indicum Baker f. [family MALVACEAE ] Abutilon mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Abutilon hildebrandtii
  • Abutilon indicum
  • Abutilon mauritianum
  • Abutilon cabrae
  • Abutilon zanzibaricum
  • Sida zanzibarica
  • Abutilon galpinii
  • Abutilon rehmanni
  • Abutilon longicuspe
  • Abutilon holstii
Common name
  • apongo (Bunting; FRI) mmofra forowa = children’s cream-pot (FRI; JMD) odonno-bea (FRI) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • fufuba-tsho (JMD) gbekεbĩi akεntεŋ = children’s basket [of fruits] (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • bush mallow; country mallow., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • tala-ura-gna (A Chev. fide JMD) (MALI, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • nwaha (auctt.) (GHANA, AKAN-FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for ABUTILON mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ABUTILON mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik. [family MALVACEAE], (1787);
Sida mauritiana Jacq. [family MALVACEAE], (1781). Fig. 46 H. [type as above]
ABUTILON longipes Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1915).
Pavonia patens (Andr.) Chiov. [family MALVACEAE], (1915).
Information
Soft-wooded shrub or shrubby herb, up to 1 m or more tall; all parts pubescent to tomentose and sometimes also with long simple hairs. Leaves long-petiolate; blade ovate to suborbicular, up to 12 x 9 cm, cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, with serrate-dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils or on short axillary shoots; pedicels 1.5–8 cm long. Calyx 9–13 mm long. Petals 14–25 mm long, yellow to orange. Mericarps c. 20–30, 11–16 x 4–6 mm, 2–3-seeded, with a 3–5 mm long awn, ultimately stellately spreading and black. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose, and spiny-papillose towards hilum.
Range
S3 (Jubba valley) widespread in tropical and southern Africa.
Altitude range
low altitude;
Distribution
SOMALIA Tozzi 276.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Notes
The record of A. indicum (L.) Sweet from Somalia in Cuf. Enum.: 536 (1959) at least partly refers to material of A. mauritianum . The type of A. mauritianum was said to be from Mauritius, but its identity is not quite certain.

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