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Chisos Mountain false indianmallow

Habit Plants 1–2 m; herbage sparsely to densely, sometimes velvety tawny, stellate-hairy, glandular. Plants 1–1.5 m; herbage densely, closely tawny-yellowish, roughly stellate-hairy, not glandular.
Leaf

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

blades ovate to transversely ovate, unlobed or with low hiplike lobe on either side, 5–13 cm, base mostly open-cordate.

Inflorescences

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

usually dense or open cymes, 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.

calyx campanulate, densely tawny-hairy, strongly 10-ribbed at base, 8–12 mm, subequal to fruits, lobes keeled, ovate to deltate-ovate, (3–)4–8 × 4–6 mm;

corolla yellow to orange-yellow, 13–20 mm;

staminal column to 12 mm including filaments.

Seeds

reddish brown to blackish, 2.3–3 mm.

grayish with reddish-brown raphe, 2.7–3 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.

strongly dorsolaterally constricted, 7.5–10 mm including dorso-apical apiculus or spur 0.5–2 mm, densely tawny stellate-hairy, endoglossum narrow, stout, spearlike, nearly reaching ventral suture.

2n

= 16.

= 16.

Allowissadula holosericea

Allowissadula lozanoi

Phenology Flowering May–Nov. Flowering May–Oct.
Habitat Open habitats, roadsides Mostly clay soil, open scrub or waste places
Elevation 100–1600 m (300–5200 ft) 10–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas)
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from FNA
TX; Mexico (Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
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.)

Allowissadula lozanoi occurs east and south of the Edwards Plateau through the southern Texas coastal plains into northeastern Mexico.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 230. FNA vol. 6, p. 230.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Allowissadula Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Allowissadula
Sibling taxa
A. lozanoi
A. holosericea
Synonyms Abutilon holosericeum, A. marshii, Wissadula holosericea, W. insignis Wissadula lozanoi, Pseudabutilon lozanoi
Name authority (Scheele) D. M. Bates: Gentes Herbarum 11: 340. (1978) (Rose) D. M. Bates: Gentes Herbarum 11: 347. (1978)
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