Abutilon laxum Rusby

  • Authority

    Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Abutilon laxum Rusby

  • Description

    Species Description - More or less hairy throughout, in varying form. Branchlets elongate, slender, ascending. Petioles to 5 cm. long, slender, short pilose. Blades 5 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 10 cm. wide, ovate, cordate, acuminate and acute, dentate with short or nearly obsolete broad teeth, thin, rather harsh to the touch, deep-green and scabrellate above, pale-green and stellate-scurfy beneath, mostly 7-nerved, the nerves slender, sharply prominent beneath, connected by a loose reticulation. Flowers crowded at the ends of the branchlets, the pedicels slender, about 3 cm. long in flower, 5 or 6 cm. in fruit. Calyx ferruginous, 1 cm. or more in length, divided about two thirds of the length, thick, the lobes ovate, mucronate. Corolla about twice the length of the calyx, rosecolored. Carpels 10, nearly 1.5 cm. long, truncate, obtuse, tomentellate.

  • Distribution

    Along the Bopi River, 3,000 feet, H. H. Rushy, September 11, 1921 (no. 658). The same collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, without number or date. Of this Mr. E. G. Baker says that it is nearly allied to "Sida glohifcra Hooker," which is Abutilon.

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