Abutilon Miller (1754)

Takeuchi, Cátia & Esteves, Gerleni Lopes, 2012, Synopsis of Abutilon (Malvoideae, Malvaceae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, Phytotaxa 44 (1), pp. 39-57 : 40

Abutilon Miller (1754)

Type species: Abutilon theophrasti Medikus (1787: 28) .

Subshrubs, shrubs or trees. Plants with indumentum yellowish, ferruginous or rarely whitish, stellate, simple and/or glandular, non-capitate trichomes; branches cylindrical, flat-cylindrical or rarely triangular, sometimes glabrate. Leaf blades chartaceous to slightly membranous, concolor or discolor, entire, 3–5–7-lobed to parted, rarely peltate, elliptic, ovate to suborbicular, margin crenate to serrate, venation usually craspedodromous, 7– 11-nerved. Flowers sometimes pendant, solitary or in axillary fascicles of 2–5, rarely forming paniculiform or umbeliform inflorescences; epicalyx absent, calyx 5-lobed, cupuliform or rarely tubular, lobes triangular to ovate, apex acuminate, acute or long attenuate, externally with various types of trichomes, smooth or with rounded or elongate papillae; petals whitish, yellowish, orange, pink or purplish, with or without a white, pink, yellow or red spot on the base of the claw, spatulate or obovate, rarely auriculate; stamens (40–70–)120– 530; staminal tube naked, less, equal or more than double the staminiferous portion; ovary 6–18 carpels, ovules 3–8 per carpel, 6–18 styles, stigmas capitate. Fruit a schizocarp, not inflated, loculicidally dehiscent; mericarps 6–18, without a median constriction, not winged, without an endoglossum, muticous, 2-awned, rarely rostrate, dorsal suture smooth or papillate, 3–8 seeded; seeds trigonous.