ABUTILON bidentatum A. Rich. [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 bidentatum A. Rich. [family MALVACEAE], (1847). Fig. 46 G.
ABUTILON microcarpum Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1915).
Information
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 broadly ovate, up to c. 12(–17) x 10(–13) cm, cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, with serrate-dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils or on axillary shoots sometimes merging into panicles; pedicels 1.5–9 cm long. Calyx 6–10 mm long. Petals 7–13 mm long, yellow. Mericarps 12–17, 8–10 x 3–5 mm, 2-seeded, dorsal corner with a 1–2 mm long awn, ultimately stellately spreading and black. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose.
Range
N1 Arabia and eastwards to NW India.
Altitude range
1300–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3923; Bally 11687; Godding 91.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Rwanda
Burundi
NE Zaire
ABUTILON bidentatum A. Rich. [family MALVACEAE]
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