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ABUTILON asiaticum Don [family MALVACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
ABUTILON asiaticum Don [family MALVACEAE], Gen. Syst. i. 503.
Sida asiatica Linn. [family MALVACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 470.
Sida guineensis Schum. et Thonn. [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Guin. 307.
Information
An erect perennial whose branches are covered with down, mingled with a few villi. Leaves stalked, cordate-ovate, acute, crenate-dentate, 7–12-nerved, downy on both surfaces, stalks scarcely so long as the blades. Stipules leafy, subulate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, longer than the leaves, jointed near the top. Calyx-segments deltoid, acuminate, as long or longer than the ripe fruit. Petals reddish-yellow (Vogel). Fruit subglobose, depressed in the centre, an inch or more in diameter, of 20 or more carpels, which ultimately fall away from the axis, and are reniform, 2-mucronate, downy, and 3-seeded.
Range
A widely distributed plant in the tropics.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Senna, Dr. Kirk!Mozambique Mozamb. Dist. Forbes!Mozamb. Dist. Quilimane and elsewhere, Peters.Niger Upper Guinea T. Vogel!
Notes
Closely allied to A. indicum, but differing from it in the greater relative length of the peduncles and of the calyx.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
ABUTILON asiaticum Don [family MALVACEAE], Gen. Syst. i. 503.
Sida asiatica Linn. [family MALVACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 470.
Sida guineensis Schum. et Thonn. [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Guin. 307.
Information
An erect perennial whose branches are covered with down, mingled with a few villi. Leaves stalked, cordate-ovate, acute, crenate-dentate, 7–12-nerved, downy on both surfaces, stalks scarcely so long as the blades. Stipules leafy, subulate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, longer than the leaves, jointed near the top. Calyx-segments deltoid, acuminate, as long or longer than the ripe fruit. Petals reddish-yellow (Vogel). Fruit subglobose, depressed in the centre, an inch or more in diameter, of 20 or more carpels, which ultimately fall away from the axis, and are reniform, 2-mucronate, downy, and 3-seeded.
Range
A widely distributed plant in the tropics.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Senna, Dr. Kirk!Mozambique Mozamb. Dist. Forbes!Mozamb. Dist. Quilimane and elsewhere, Peters.Niger Upper Guinea T. Vogel!
Notes
Closely allied to A. indicum, but differing from it in the greater relative length of the peduncles and of the calyx.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
ABUTILON asiaticum Don [family MALVACEAE], Gen. Syst. i. 503.
Sida asiatica Linn. [family MALVACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 470.
Sida guineensis Schum. et Thonn. [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Guin. 307.
Information
An erect perennial whose branches are covered with down, mingled with a few villi. Leaves stalked, cordate-ovate, acute, crenate-dentate, 7–12-nerved, downy on both surfaces, stalks scarcely so long as the blades. Stipules leafy, subulate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, longer than the leaves, jointed near the top. Calyx-segments deltoid, acuminate, as long or longer than the ripe fruit. Petals reddish-yellow (Vogel). Fruit subglobose, depressed in the centre, an inch or more in diameter, of 20 or more carpels, which ultimately fall away from the axis, and are reniform, 2-mucronate, downy, and 3-seeded.
Range
A widely distributed plant in the tropics.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Senna, Dr. Kirk!Mozambique Mozamb. Dist. Forbes!Mozamb. Dist. Quilimane and elsewhere, Peters.Niger Upper Guinea T. Vogel!
Notes
Closely allied to A. indicum, but differing from it in the greater relative length of the peduncles and of the calyx.
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