Abutilon ramosum
(Cav.) Guillemin & Perrottet in Guillemin et al., Fl. Seneg.
Tent. 1: 68. 1830; Masters in Fl. Brit. India 1: 328. 1874. Sida ramosa Cav., Diss. 1: 28.
t. 6. f. 1. 1785. Abutilon sidoides Dalz. & Gibs., Bombay Fl. 18. 1861.
Guj.: Dholi kapat.
Perennial herbs or undershrubs, 1 - 3.5 m high; stems ash-coloured, densely stellate and simple hairy, glabrescent. Leaves 2.5 - 12 x 2.5 - 11 cm, ovate, cordate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, sometimes 3-angled, crenate-serrate, palmately 5 - 7-nerved at base, upper surface glabrescent or minutely stellate-pubescent and lower surface densely stellate-pubescent; petioles 2 - 12 cm long, stellate-hairy; stipules 5 - 10 mm long, linear, hairy. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or paired, or divided above dichotomously as in cyme; peduncles 1.5 - 4.5 cm long, tomentose; pedicels shorter than petioles, jointed towards apex, pubescent with stellate and simple hairs. Calyx campanulate, 3 - 5 mm across, divided to the middle, lobes 4 - 6 x 2.5 - 3 mm, accrescent up to 8 x 5 mm, ovate-acuminate, densely stellate-pubescent outside, minutely stellate and appressed simple hairy inside with middle portion glabrescent. Corolla yellow, ca 1 cm across; petals ca 5 x 8 mm, glabrous. Staminal column ca 2.5 mm long. antheriferous towards tip, stellate-hairy. Schizocarps ca 1 x 1 cm; mericarpas 8 - 10, 6 - 10 x 3 - 5 mm, each with 2 long. villose spreading or reflexed awns, dehiscing through dorsal suture, 2 - 3-seeded. Seeds ca 2 mm across, reniform, minutely stellate-puberulous, glabrescent, brownish- black.
Fl. Aug. - Oct. ; Fr. Sept. - March.
Distrib. India: Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Pakistan and Tropical Africa.
Perennial herbs or undershrubs, 1 - 3.5 m high; stems ash-coloured, densely stellate and simple hairy, glabrescent. Leaves 2.5 - 12 x 2.5 - 11 cm, ovate, cordate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, sometimes 3-angled, crenate-serrate, palmately 5 - 7-nerved at base, upper surface glabrescent or minutely stellate-pubescent and lower surface densely stellate-pubescent; petioles 2 - 12 cm long, stellate-hairy; stipules 5 - 10 mm long, linear, hairy. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or paired, or divided above dichotomously as in cyme; peduncles 1.5 - 4.5 cm long, tomentose; pedicels shorter than petioles, jointed towards apex, pubescent with stellate and simple hairs. Calyx campanulate, 3 - 5 mm across, divided to the middle, lobes 4 - 6 x 2.5 - 3 mm, accrescent up to 8 x 5 mm, ovate-acuminate, densely stellate-pubescent outside, minutely stellate and appressed simple hairy inside with middle portion glabrescent. Corolla yellow, ca 1 cm across; petals ca 5 x 8 mm, glabrous. Staminal column ca 2.5 mm long. antheriferous towards tip, stellate-hairy. Schizocarps ca 1 x 1 cm; mericarpas 8 - 10, 6 - 10 x 3 - 5 mm, each with 2 long. villose spreading or reflexed awns, dehiscing through dorsal suture, 2 - 3-seeded. Seeds ca 2 mm across, reniform, minutely stellate-puberulous, glabrescent, brownish- black.
Fl. Aug. - Oct. ; Fr. Sept. - March.
Distrib. India: Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Pakistan and Tropical Africa.
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