Abutilon fruticosum
Guillemin & Perrottet in Guillemin et al., Fl. Seneg. Tent.
1: 70. 1830; Masters in Fl. Brit. India 1: 328. 1874.
Erect undershrubs, 60 -
120 cm high; stems woody, densely pubescent with minute,
Whitish stellate hairs when young. Leaves 1.5 -
9 x 1.8 cm, deeply cordate, ovate to ovate
obloug, acute at apex, crenate or denticulate, 5 -
9-nerved at base, densely pubescent
with whitish stellate hairs on both surfaces; petioles 5 -
7 mm long, stellate-pubescent;
stipules 1.5 -
3 mm long, linear, stellate-hairy. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels equal
to or longer than petioles, jointed 2 -
3 mm below the calyx, stellate-pubescent. Calyx
4 - 6 mm across, campanulate, divided to the middle, lobes 4 -
5 x 2 -
3 mm, ovate, acute
or slightly acuminate, 3-nerved, densely stellate-pubescent on both surfaces. Corolla
yellow; petals 6 -
10 x 4 -
5 mm. Staminal column 3 -
4 mm long, antheriferous towards
apex, sparsely stellate-hairy. Schizocarps 5 -
11 mm high, oblong-acute; mericarps 10,
5 - 11 x 5 -
6 mm, obliquely truncate, without awns, stellate-tomentose along margins,
2 - 3 seeded. Seeds 1- 1.5 mm across, reniform, glabrate with stout white or brown simple
straght or hooked hairs.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Schizocarp densely stellate-hairy, golden yellow | 2.1. chrysocarpa |
| b. Schizocarp sparsely stellate-hairy, pale greenish | 2.2. fruticosum |
