Flora of North America species comparison

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Allowissadula holosericea

Chisos Mountain false indianmallow
Habit Plants 1–2 m; herbage sparsely to densely, sometimes velvety tawny, stellate-hairy, glandular.
Leaf

blades ovate to subspheric, unlobed or acutely 3-lobed, 5–10(–30) cm, base closed-cordate.
Inflorescences

terminal, usually open panicles or cymes, individual units 2+-flowered, sometimes solitary flowers.
Flowers

calyx campanulate, smooth or ribbed, (7–)8–13.5 mm, subequal or slightly exceeding fruits, lobes ovate to triangular, (3–)4–6.5 × (3–)4–5.5 mm;

corolla orange-yellow, (12–)15–25 mm;

staminal column 10 mm, including filaments.
Seeds

reddish brown to blackish, 2.3–3 mm.
Mericarps

moderately dorsolaterally constricted, 7–9 mm including dorso-apical apiculus or spine to 1.5(–2) mm, stellate- and glandular-hairy, endoglossum absent.
2n

= 16.

Allowissadula holosericea
Phenology Flowering May–Nov.
Habitat Open habitats, roadsides
Elevation 100–1600 m (300–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas)
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Discussion

In the flora area, Allowissadula holosericea ranges from the Edwards Plateau to the trans-Pecos mountains and westward; in Mexico, it occurs north of the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra de Tamaulipas.

The name Abutilon velutinum A. Gray 1849 (not G. Don 1831), which pertains here, is illegitimate.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 230.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Allowissadula
Sibling taxa
A. lozanoi
Synonyms Abutilon holosericeum, A. marshii, Wissadula holosericea, W. insignis
Name authority (Scheele) D. M. Bates: Gentes Herbarum 11: 340. (1978)
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