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Habit Subshrubs, to 1 m. Stems erect, densely tomentulose, without simple hairs.
Leaves

stipules subulate, 3–5 mm;

petiole more than 1/2 as long as blade;

blade nearly concolorous, ovate, 4–6 cm, ± as long as wide, base truncate to cordate, margins sharply serrulate, apex acute, surfaces tomentulose, obscured by pubescence.

Inflorescences

solitary flowers or open, terminal panicles.

Flowers

calyx 5–6 mm, lobes not overlapping, fully reflexed in fruit, lanceolate;

corolla rotate, yellow throughout, petals 10–15 mm;

staminal column with few stellate hairs apically;

style 5-branched.

Seeds

3 per mericarp, 2 mm, puberulent.

Schizocarps

± cylindric, 8–10 × 6–8 mm;

mericarps: apex long-acuminate, surface stellate-pubescent.

Abutilon coahuilae

Phenology Flowering year-round.
Habitat Open, arid habitats
Elevation 1000–1800 m (3300–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; Mexico (Coahuila, Sonora)
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Discussion

Abutilon coahuilae is known from Pima and Pinal counties.

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

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 223.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Abutilon
Sibling taxa
A. abutiloides, A. berlandieri, 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 Kearney: Madroño 12: 115. (1953)
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