Abutilon pakistanicum Jafri & Ali in Jafri, Fl. Karachi 220. 1966. Abutilon comutum Dalz. exT. Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 1: 98.1908 (Repr.1: 104.1958), non Sweet 1830.

Undershrubs, 20 - 100 cm high; stems and branches grey tomentose with appressed stellate hairs. Leaves 3 - 8 cm across, orbicular, cordate at base, shortly acuminate to subobtuse at apex, entire or slightly crenate-denticulate; petioles 1 - 9 cm long; stipules 5 - 8 mm long, linear, densely pubescent. Flowers axillary, solitary or in terminal racemes by reduction of the upper leaves; pedicels 0.8 - 1.8 cm long, slender, jointed in the middle. Calyx lobes connate at base, 7 - 10 x 4 - 5 mm, lanceolate to ovate, acute or mucronate. Corolla 2 cm in diam., pale yellow; petals 7 - 9 x 5 - 7 mm, obovate. Staminal column very short, stellate-hairy. Scbizocarps 1 cm or more across; mericarps 8 - 10, 1.2 - 0.6 cm, with 1 mm long awns; seeds 3 per mericarp, ca 2 mm across, furfuraceous dotted.

Fl. & Fr. Aug. - Dec.

Distrib. India: N.W. Rajasthan.

Pakistan.