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ABUTILON ramosum (Cav.) Guill. & Perr. [family MALVACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 ramosum (Cav.) Guill. & Perr. [family MALVACEAE], (1831);
Sida ramosa Cav. [family MALVACEAE], (1785). Fig. 46 E. [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb or shrub, up to 1 m tall; all parts puberulous to densely pubescent, usually also with long simple hairs. Leaves with 2–11 cm long petiole; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, some usually shallowly 3-lobed, up to 19 x 17 cm, cordate at the base, acute to acuminate at the apex, with serrate or crenate margins. Flowers in 2–6-flowered axillary cymes or some solitary, sometimes merging into a terminal panicle; pedicels up to c. 2 cm long. Calyx 4–7 mm long. Petals 4–7 mm long, yellow. Mericarps 6–8, c. 6–8 x 3 mm, 2–3-seeded, with 2–3 mm long awn, pubescent and glandular, only tardily separating. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose.
Range
N1; S3 widespread in tropical Africa,
Altitude range
30–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3922; Puccioni 25; Paoli 460.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Yemen
NW India
Notes
Balambal (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 ramosum (Cav.) Guill. & Perr. [family MALVACEAE], (1831);
Sida ramosa Cav. [family MALVACEAE], (1785). Fig. 46 E. [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb or shrub, up to 1 m tall; all parts puberulous to densely pubescent, usually also with long simple hairs. Leaves with 2–11 cm long petiole; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, some usually shallowly 3-lobed, up to 19 x 17 cm, cordate at the base, acute to acuminate at the apex, with serrate or crenate margins. Flowers in 2–6-flowered axillary cymes or some solitary, sometimes merging into a terminal panicle; pedicels up to c. 2 cm long. Calyx 4–7 mm long. Petals 4–7 mm long, yellow. Mericarps 6–8, c. 6–8 x 3 mm, 2–3-seeded, with 2–3 mm long awn, pubescent and glandular, only tardily separating. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose.
Range
N1; S3 widespread in tropical Africa,
Altitude range
30–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3922; Puccioni 25; Paoli 460.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Yemen
NW India
Notes
Balambal (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 ramosum (Cav.) Guill. & Perr. [family MALVACEAE], (1831);
Sida ramosa Cav. [family MALVACEAE], (1785). Fig. 46 E. [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb or shrub, up to 1 m tall; all parts puberulous to densely pubescent, usually also with long simple hairs. Leaves with 2–11 cm long petiole; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, some usually shallowly 3-lobed, up to 19 x 17 cm, cordate at the base, acute to acuminate at the apex, with serrate or crenate margins. Flowers in 2–6-flowered axillary cymes or some solitary, sometimes merging into a terminal panicle; pedicels up to c. 2 cm long. Calyx 4–7 mm long. Petals 4–7 mm long, yellow. Mericarps 6–8, c. 6–8 x 3 mm, 2–3-seeded, with 2–3 mm long awn, pubescent and glandular, only tardily separating. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, papillose.
Range
N1; S3 widespread in tropical Africa,
Altitude range
30–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3922; Puccioni 25; Paoli 460.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Yemen
NW India
Notes
Balambal (Som.).
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