Abutilon fruticosum
Abutilon coahuilae
pelotazo, Texas Indian mallow
stipules subulate, 2 mm;
petiole shorter than blade;
blade ± concolorous, ovate, 2–10 cm (often smaller), somewhat longer than wide, base cordate, margins irregularly serrate, apex acute, surfaces minutely stellate-pubescent.
stipules subulate, 3–5 mm;
petiole more than 1/2 as long as blade;
blade nearly concolorous, ovate, 4–6 cm, ± as long as wide, base truncate to cordate, margins sharply serrulate, apex acute, surfaces tomentulose, obscured by pubescence.
solitary flowers or terminal panicles.
solitary flowers or open, terminal panicles.
calyx 3–5 mm, lobes not overlapping, reflexed in fruit, lanceolate-ovate, to 8 mm wide;
corolla yellow throughout, petals 5–10 mm;
staminal column glabrous;
style 6–9-branched.
calyx 5–6 mm, lobes not overlapping, fully reflexed in fruit, lanceolate;
corolla rotate, yellow throughout, petals 10–15 mm;
staminal column with few stellate hairs apically;
style 5-branched.
3 per mericarp, 2 mm, puberulent but appearing glabrous.
3 per mericarp, 2 mm, puberulent.
cask-shaped, 8–9 × 8–9 mm;
mericarps: apex acute or apiculate, surface tomentulose.
± cylindric, 8–10 × 6–8 mm;
mericarps: apex long-acuminate, surface stellate-pubescent.
= 14.
Abutilon fruticosum
Abutilon coahuilae
Abutilon fruticosum is thought to be native to the New World; it also occurs disjunctly in northern Africa and the Levant countries. It is widespread in southwestern Texas, scarce in Oklahoma and Arkansas, and is known from Chaves and Lincoln counties, New Mexico.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Abutilon coahuilae is known from Pima and Pinal counties.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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