Abutilon permolle (Willd.) Sweet

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Abutilon permolle (Willd.) Sweet

  • Description

    Species Description - Perennial, velvety, 0.6-1.5 m. high, branched, the branches slender. Leaves ovate, 2.5-10 cm. long, acuminate at the apex, rather deeply cordate at the base, crenulate, white-tomentulose beneath, the petioles as long as the blades or shorter; calyx scarcely enlarged in fruit, its ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate lobes longer than the tube; petals yellow, obovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, carpels 7-10, slender-beaked, longer than the calyx, nearly 1 cm. long.

  • Distribution

    Waste places and scrub-lands, Little Harbor Cay, New Providence, Eleuthera, Little San Salvador, the Exumas to Long Island, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, Inagua, East Caicos and Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba ; Jamaica. Velvety Abutilon.

    New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Jamaica South America|