Abutilon incanum
Abutilon malacum
hoary abutilon, Indian mallow, pelotazo, pelotazo chico
yellow Indian mallow
erect, terete when young, minutely tomentulose.
erect, minutely stellate-tomentulose, hairs yellowish.
stipules subulate, 3 mm;
petiole ca. 1/2 times as long as blade;
blade concolorous, ovate, to 6 cm, longer than wide, base cordate, margins irregularly serrulate or crenate, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces densely tomentulose, obscured by pubescence.
stipules subulate, 5–9 mm;
petiole 1 / 2 to as long as blade;
blade concolorous, suborbiculate to ovate, 3–7 cm, ± as long as wide, base cordate, margins sharply serrate, apex acuminate, surfaces minutely tomentulose, obscured by pubescence.
solitary flowers or in open panicles.
terminal, compact panicles.
calyx 3–5 mm, lobes not overlapping, spreading or somewhat reflexed in fruit, lanceolate-ovate;
corolla reflexed, yellow or pink with dark red center, petals 4–6 mm;
staminal column pubescent;
style 5-branched.
calyx 6–8 mm, lobes not overlapping, erect in fruit, lanceolate-ovate;
corolla rotate, yellow throughout, petals 9–15 mm;
staminal column pubescent;
style 5-branched.
3 per mericarp, 2 mm, puberulent but appearing glabrous.
3 per mericarp, 2 mm, puberulent but appearing glabrous.
cask-shaped, not medially constricted, 7–9 × 6 mm;
mericarps: apex acute or apiculate, surface tomentulose.
± cylindric, 6–7 × 6–7 mm;
mericarps: apex usually acute, surface coarsely stellate-pubescent.
= 14.
= 14.
Abutilon incanum
Abutilon malacum
Abutilon incanum is found in Baja California, Sinaloa, Sonora, adjacent Arizona, and disjunctly in Hawaii, where it is considered to be native.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Abutilon malacum is found in southwestern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and the Big Bend area of Texas.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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