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ABUTILON Sonneratianum Cav. [family MALVACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 Sonneratianum Cav. [family MALVACEAE], Diss. t. 6. f. 4;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 470. E. & Z. 318. Sida Asiatica Thunb. [family MALVACEAE], Cap. p. 548. Drege, 7332, 7333.
Information
stems and petioles velvetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, or 3-angled, repand, or unequally crenate, velvetty on both surfaces, canescent on the lower; stipules setaceous; pedicels longer than the leaves; calyx segments oblong-ovate, acuminate; carpels 9–10, truncate, obtuse, stellato-pubescent. The whole plant is softly velvetty; the younger stems and branches are also clothed with long, soft, spreading, deciduous hairs. Stem 1–2 feet high. Flowers yellow, an inch across. Carpels inflated, either quite obtuse, or slightly mucronate.
Range
A native also of tropical Asia, and often confounded with the following.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods and waste places, in the eastern districts, Caffraria and Natal. (Herb. T.C.D.)

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 Sonneratianum Cav. [family MALVACEAE], Diss. t. 6. f. 4;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 470. E. & Z. 318. Sida Asiatica Thunb. [family MALVACEAE], Cap. p. 548. Drege, 7332, 7333.
Information
stems and petioles velvetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, or 3-angled, repand, or unequally crenate, velvetty on both surfaces, canescent on the lower; stipules setaceous; pedicels longer than the leaves; calyx segments oblong-ovate, acuminate; carpels 9–10, truncate, obtuse, stellato-pubescent. The whole plant is softly velvetty; the younger stems and branches are also clothed with long, soft, spreading, deciduous hairs. Stem 1–2 feet high. Flowers yellow, an inch across. Carpels inflated, either quite obtuse, or slightly mucronate.
Range
A native also of tropical Asia, and often confounded with the following.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods and waste places, in the eastern districts, Caffraria and Natal. (Herb. T.C.D.)

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 Sonneratianum Cav. [family MALVACEAE], Diss. t. 6. f. 4;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 470. E. & Z. 318. Sida Asiatica Thunb. [family MALVACEAE], Cap. p. 548. Drege, 7332, 7333.
Information
stems and petioles velvetty and villous; leaves cordate, acuminate, or 3-angled, repand, or unequally crenate, velvetty on both surfaces, canescent on the lower; stipules setaceous; pedicels longer than the leaves; calyx segments oblong-ovate, acuminate; carpels 9–10, truncate, obtuse, stellato-pubescent. The whole plant is softly velvetty; the younger stems and branches are also clothed with long, soft, spreading, deciduous hairs. Stem 1–2 feet high. Flowers yellow, an inch across. Carpels inflated, either quite obtuse, or slightly mucronate.
Range
A native also of tropical Asia, and often confounded with the following.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods and waste places, in the eastern districts, Caffraria and Natal. (Herb. T.C.D.)
ABUTILON Sonneratianum Cav. [family MALVACEAE]
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