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Abutilon malacum

yellow Indian mallow
Habit Herbs or subshrubs, usually perennial, to 1 m. Stems erect, minutely stellate-tomentulose, hairs yellowish.
Leaves

stipules subulate, 5–9 mm;

petiole 1 / 2 to as long as blade;

blade concolorous, suborbiculate to ovate, 3–7 cm, ± as long as wide, base cordate, margins sharply serrate, apex acuminate, surfaces minutely tomentulose, obscured by pubescence.
Inflorescences

terminal, compact panicles.
Flowers

calyx 6–8 mm, lobes not overlapping, erect in fruit, lanceolate-ovate;

corolla rotate, yellow throughout, petals 9–15 mm;

staminal column pubescent;

style 5-branched.
Seeds

3 per mericarp, 2 mm, puberulent but appearing glabrous.
Schizocarps

± cylindric, 6–7 × 6–7 mm;

mericarps: apex usually acute, surface coarsely stellate-pubescent.
2n

= 14.

Abutilon malacum
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Arid habitats, hillsides, plains, canyons
Elevation 300–1500 m (1000–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas)
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Discussion

Abutilon malacum is found in southwestern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and the Big Bend area of Texas.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 224.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Abutilon
Sibling taxa
A. abutiloides, A. berlandieri, A. coahuilae, A. fruticosum, A. hirtum, A. hulseanum, A. hypoleucum, A. incanum, A. mollicomum, A. palmeri, A. parishii, A. parvulum, A. permolle, A. reventum, A. theophrasti, A. trisulcatum, A. wrightii
Name authority S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 21: 446. (1886)
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