Abutilon Mill.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Subshrubs or shrubs to small trees, glabrescent or pubescent, sometimes glandular-pubescent. Leaves elliptic, ovate, or cordate, sometimes lobed or parted, usually crenate or dentate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or aggregated into racemes or panicles, rarely in umbels; involucel absent; calyx gamosepalous, the lobes lanceolate, ovate, or cordate; petals often yellow or yellow-orange, less often white, lavender, or rose; staminal column filamentiferous at apex, the anthers numerous; styles 5 to many, the stigmas capitate. Fruit schizocarpic (sometimes pseudocapsular), the mericarps 5 to many, usually apically acute or acuminate to spinescent (rarely rounded); seeds usually 3-6 per mericarp, glabrous or slightly pubescent.
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Distribution
A genus of ca. 200 species from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Australia Oceania| Asia| Africa|