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Abutilon reventum

yellowflower Indian mallow
Habit Herbs, annual, or subshrubs, to 2 m. Stems erect, usually reddish or purplish, minutely glandular-pubescent to glabrate, without simple hairs, obscurely viscid.
Leaves

stipules lost early and seldom observed, subulate;

petiole subequal to blade;

blade markedly discolorous, broadly round-ovate, 8–10(–20) cm, ± as long as wide, base deeply cordate, margins obscurely serrulate, apex acuminate, surfaces softly pubescent.
Inflorescences

terminal panicles.
Flowers

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes not overlapping, not reflexed in fruit, lanceolate-ovate, to 8 mm wide;

corolla pale yellow throughout, petals 9–15 mm;

staminal column glabrous;

style 10-branched.
Seeds

3 per mericarp, 2.5–3 mm, sparsely reticulately scabridulous.
Schizocarps

globose, 7–10 mm;

mericarps: apex rounded or obtuse, stellate-tomentose.

Abutilon reventum
Phenology Flowering late summer.
Habitat Arid hillsides, along water courses
Elevation 1000–1500 m (3300–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; Mexico
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Discussion

Abutilon reventum ranges in western Mexico from Chihuahua and Sonora to Oaxaca. It is also found at adjacent sites in Pima County, southern Arizona.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 226.
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. malacum, A. mollicomum, A. palmeri, A. parishii, A. parvulum, A. permolle, A. theophrasti, A. trisulcatum, A. wrightii
Name authority S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 21: 418. (1886)
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