Abutilon (Genus)
Herbs, subshrubs , shrubs , or small trees. Stipules usually caducous ; leaf blade usually entire (lobed in A. pictum ), palmately veined, base cordate , margin crenate or serrate. Flowers axillary or subterminal , solitary, paired or in small cymes , often aggregated into terminal panicles. Epicalyx absent. Calyx campanulate , lobes 5. Corolla mostly yellow or orange (red in A. roseum ), often with dark center, campanulate to wheel-shaped, rarely ± tubular (A. pictum ) ; petals 5, basally connate and adnate to filament tube. Anthers many, clustered at filament tube apex. Ovary (5-) 7-20-loculed; ovules 2-9 per carpel ; style branches as many as carpels. Fruit a schizocarp , often blackish when mature , subglobose to hemispherical ; mericarps (5-) 7-20, eventually dehiscent , apex rounded or acute , sometimes 2-awned, pericarp leathery. Seeds reniform , glabrous or slightly pubescent.
About 200 species : mostly in tropics and subtropics; nine species (three endemic , one introduced ) in China.
Several species have become widespread tropical weeds. One species, Abutilon pictum , is widely grown as an ornamental.[1 ]
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Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon chittendenii Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Olanchito, Honduras Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 222321
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon malacum Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Chihuahua, Mexico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199049
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon berlandieri Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Mexico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199044
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon parishii Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Arizona, United States of America Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199053
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon theophrasti Flower(s) Photographer: Steve Dewey Location Taken: United States Copyright: © Steve Dewey. Permissions for Use: see www.ForestryImages.org . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 166797
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon theophrasti With a bunch of turkeys Photographer: Steve Dewey Location Taken: United States Copyright: © Steve Dewey. Permissions for Use: see www.ForestryImages.org . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 166795
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon incanum Fruit of Abutilon incanum Photographer: Robert J. Gibbons ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 149812
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon menziesii Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: August 16, 2006 Location Taken: United States Botanic Garden Copyright: © 2006 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 134321
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon malacum Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Chihuahua, Mexico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199048
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon theophrasti Fruit(s) Photographer: Steve Dewey Location Taken: United States Copyright: © Steve Dewey. Permissions for Use: see www.ForestryImages.org . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 166796
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon malacum Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Chihuahua, Mexico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199046
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon regnellii Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 230690
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon berlandieri Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Mexico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199043
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon malacum Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Chihuahua, Mexico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199047
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon menziesii Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: November 07, 2005 Location Taken: United States Botanic Garden Copyright: © 2005 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 82178
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon megapotamicum \'Little Imp\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: October 02, 2006 Location Taken: United States Botanic Garden , Washington D.C. Copyright: © 2006 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 137356
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon theophrasti Dead plant Photographer: Steve Dewey Location Taken: United States Copyright: © Steve Dewey. Permissions for Use: see www.ForestryImages.org . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 166798
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Canary Bird\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: October 02, 2006 Location Taken: United States Botanic Garden , Washington D.C. Copyright: © 2006 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 137358
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon theophrasti Not John Byrd\'s Image Photographer: John D. Byrd Location Taken: United States Copyright: © John D. Byrd. Permissions for Use: see www.ForestryImages.org . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 171372
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon theophrasti Plant(s) Photographer: Charles T. Bryson Location Taken: United States Copyright: © Charles T. Bryson. Permissions for Use: see www.ForestryImages.org . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 164718
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon sordidum Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Oran, Argentina Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 230688
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon malacum Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: El Paso, El Paso Co, Texas, United States of America Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 199050
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Canary Bird\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: October 02, 2006 Location Taken: United States Botanic Garden , Washington D.C. Copyright: © 2006 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 137359
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon sordidum Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007 Location Taken: Hold von Tabaral bei Oran, Argentina Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium . ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 230689
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Dwarf Red\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: August 16, 2006 Location Taken: United States Botanic Garden Copyright: © 2006 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 134871
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Kristen\'s Pink\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: March 08, 2008 Location Taken: Brookside Gardens , Wheaton Maryland Copyright: © 2008 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 300392
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Kristen\'s Pink\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: March 08, 2008 Location Taken: Brookside Gardens , Wheaton Maryland Copyright: © 2008 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 300391
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Kristen\'s Pink\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: March 08, 2008 Location Taken: Brookside Gardens , Wheaton Maryland Copyright: © 2008 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 300383
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Kristen\'s Pink\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: March 08, 2008 Location Taken: Brookside Gardens , Wheaton Maryland Copyright: © 2008 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 300393
Abutilon chittendenii Abutilon \'Kristen\'s Pink\' Photographer: David Stang Date Taken: March 08, 2008 Location Taken: Brookside Gardens , Wheaton Maryland Copyright: © 2008 David Stang ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 300394
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Taxonomy
Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
The Genus Abutilon is further organized into finer groupings including:
Bibliography
Feng Kuo-mei. 1984. Malvaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 1-102.
Footnotes
"Abutilon". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 265, 275. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org .
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