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Berlandier's Indian mallow

Habit Shrubs, 0.5–1.5 m. Stems erect, roughly stellate-pubescent with minute intermingled glandular hairs.
Leaves

stipules subulate, 3–10 mm;

petiole shorter than blade;

blade slightly discolorous, ovate, 2.5–10 cm, slightly longer than wide, base truncate to cordate, margins obscurely crenate to serrate, apex acute, sometimes acuminate, surfaces roughly pubescent.

Inflorescences

solitary flowers or racemes or panicles.

Flowers

calyx 8–13 mm, basally cuneate, lobes basally overlapping, erect in fruit, acuminate, to 8 mm wide;

corolla orange-yellow throughout, petals 10 mm;

staminal column pubescent;

style 8–10-branched.

Seeds

3 per mericarp, 3 mm, uniformly puberulent.

Schizocarps

± ovoid, 10–13 × 10–13 mm;

mericarps: apex acuminate, surface with both stellate and glandular hairs.

2n

= 42.

Abutilon berlandieri

Phenology Flowering year-round.
Habitat Open, arid habitats
Elevation 0–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Abutilon berlandieri is found in southern Texas and is scarce elsewhere.

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

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 222.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Abutilon
Sibling taxa
A. abutiloides, A. coahuilae, A. fruticosum, A. hirtum, A. hulseanum, A. hypoleucum, A. incanum, A. malacum, A. mollicomum, A. palmeri, A. parishii, A. parvulum, A. permolle, A. reventum, A. theophrasti, A. trisulcatum, A. wrightii
Name authority A. Gray ex S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 358. (1885)
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