Abutilon pauciflorum A.St.-Hil.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Abutilon pauciflorum A.St.-Hil.

  • Description

    Species Description - A densely stellate-tomentose shrub, 6 dm. high, or higher. Leaves orbicular- ovate, 5-7 cm. long, obtuse, acute or short-acuminate at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, crenate, the petiole as long as the blade or shorter; peduncles axillary, about as long as the petioles; calyx 10-12 mm. long; its lobes ovate, acute or acuminate; petals somewhat longer than the calyx; carpels 8-10, densely villous, 2-cuspidate.

  • Distribution

    Waste grounds, Long Island, at Clarence Town : Florida ; Jamaica ; Cuba ; Mexico to Paraguay. Woolly Abutilon.

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