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Abutilon indicum

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Name

Identification
Abutilon indicum (L.) Sweet [family MALVACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ABUTILON indicum G. Don [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
ABUTILON indicum G. Don [family MALVACEAE]
Sida indica Linn. [family MALVACEAE], DC. Prod. 1. p. 471.
Sida populifolia Lam. [family MALVACEAE]
Anoda holosericea E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE], !
Information
stems and petioles more or less velvetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, 3–5 angled or somewhat lobed, repand or crenate, soft, glabrescent on the upper, velvetty and canescent on the lower surface; stipules setaceous, reflexed, deciduous; peduncles axillary, one-flowered, longer than the petioles; calyx lobes ovate, mucronulate, velvetty and canescent, carpels 10–20, or more, truncate, their upper angles acuminate or cuspidate, stellato-pubescent. Sida indica Linn. Except in the cuspidate carpels, if this be a constant character, I scarcely see how this differs from the preceding. The pubescence, in our specimens, is less velvetty and more hairy than in S. Sonneratianum, and the leaves more decidedly lobed.
Range
A. indicum is found throughout the tropics of both hemispheres.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Caffraria and Port Natal, Dr. Grant. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D.)
Notes
I have seen other scraps of Abutila from Caffirland which look different from either form, but are too imperfect for description.

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