Abutilon trisulcatum (Jacq.) Urb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A shrub, 1-1.6 m. high, with slender ascending densely tomentulose branches. Leaves ovate, slender-petioled, 4-12 cm. long, crenate or crenulate. finely velvety on both sides, the upper ones much smaller than the lower; flowers solitary and slender-peduncled in the axils of leaf-like bracts, or subpaniculate; calyx 4-5 mm. long, its lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate; petals yellow, reddish blotched at the base, 5-7 mm. long; carpels about 5, stellate puberulent, short-tipped, about 8 mm. long.
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Distribution
Scrub-lands, New Providence and Great Exuma : Cuba : Mexico.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Cuba South America| México Mexico North America|