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ABUTILON pannosum (Forst. f.) Schlechtend. [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 pannosum (Forst. f.) Schlechtend. [family MALVACEAE], (1851); Sida pannosa Forst. f. [family MALVACEAE], (1789). [type as above] ABUTILON benadirense Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1915);. types: S3, “Torda”, Macaluso 117 (PAL syn., not found) and “Giumbo”, Paoli 244 (FT syn.).
Information
Shrubby herb, up to 1.5 m or more tall; all parts pubescent to lanate. Leaves with 1.5–8 cm long petiole; stipules up to 1 mm wide; blade ovate to suborbicular, up to 15 x 11.5 cm, cordate at the base, acuminate to rounded at the apex, with dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils and sometimes merging into panicles; pedicels 1–6 cm long. Calyx 10–15 mm long. Petals 14–25 mm long, yellow to orange with dark red to purple base. Mericarps c. 22–34, 8–9.5 x 5–6.5 mm, 1–2-seeded, dorsal corner slightly angled or shortly apiculate. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, with simple or stellate hairs.
Range
S2, 3 Djibouti, Eritrea, N Ethiopia, Sudan to West Africa, Cape Verde Is, Egypt and the Middle East, Arabia to India, and in the Mascarene Is.
Altitude range
30–100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kazmi, Elmi & Rodol 745.

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 pannosum (Forst. f.) Schlechtend. [family MALVACEAE], (1851); Sida pannosa Forst. f. [family MALVACEAE], (1789). [type as above] ABUTILON benadirense Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1915);. types: S3, “Torda”, Macaluso 117 (PAL syn., not found) and “Giumbo”, Paoli 244 (FT syn.).
Information
Shrubby herb, up to 1.5 m or more tall; all parts pubescent to lanate. Leaves with 1.5–8 cm long petiole; stipules up to 1 mm wide; blade ovate to suborbicular, up to 15 x 11.5 cm, cordate at the base, acuminate to rounded at the apex, with dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils and sometimes merging into panicles; pedicels 1–6 cm long. Calyx 10–15 mm long. Petals 14–25 mm long, yellow to orange with dark red to purple base. Mericarps c. 22–34, 8–9.5 x 5–6.5 mm, 1–2-seeded, dorsal corner slightly angled or shortly apiculate. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, with simple or stellate hairs.
Range
S2, 3 Djibouti, Eritrea, N Ethiopia, Sudan to West Africa, Cape Verde Is, Egypt and the Middle East, Arabia to India, and in the Mascarene Is.
Altitude range
30–100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kazmi, Elmi & Rodol 745.

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 pannosum (Forst. f.) Schlechtend. [family MALVACEAE], (1851); Sida pannosa Forst. f. [family MALVACEAE], (1789). [type as above] ABUTILON benadirense Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1915);. types: S3, “Torda”, Macaluso 117 (PAL syn., not found) and “Giumbo”, Paoli 244 (FT syn.).
Information
Shrubby herb, up to 1.5 m or more tall; all parts pubescent to lanate. Leaves with 1.5–8 cm long petiole; stipules up to 1 mm wide; blade ovate to suborbicular, up to 15 x 11.5 cm, cordate at the base, acuminate to rounded at the apex, with dentate margins. Flowers in leaf axils and sometimes merging into panicles; pedicels 1–6 cm long. Calyx 10–15 mm long. Petals 14–25 mm long, yellow to orange with dark red to purple base. Mericarps c. 22–34, 8–9.5 x 5–6.5 mm, 1–2-seeded, dorsal corner slightly angled or shortly apiculate. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, with simple or stellate hairs.
Range
S2, 3 Djibouti, Eritrea, N Ethiopia, Sudan to West Africa, Cape Verde Is, Egypt and the Middle East, Arabia to India, and in the Mascarene Is.
Altitude range
30–100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kazmi, Elmi & Rodol 745.
ABUTILON pannosum (Forst. f.) Schlechtend. [family MALVACEAE]
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