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ABUTILON mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik. [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 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.

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 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.

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 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.
ABUTILON mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik. [family MALVACEAE]
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