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Abutilon piloso-cinereum A.Meeuse

Species

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Characteristics

Soft shrub (annual?), 0.2-1.5 m high; scantily branched. Leaves ovate-cordate, faintly 3-lobed, apex attenuate, margins crenate-dentate; dark green above, canescent below; petioles ± as long as blades. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels up to 70 mm long, articulated. Calyx cupuliform, lobes oblong-lanceolate. Petals yellow. Staminal tube stellate-pubescent. Flowering time Apr.? Fruit semi-globose. Mericarps 10-18, 3-seeded, apical edge ± convex with awn up to 2 mm long, ventral tooth small. Seeds verrucose-punctate.
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Soft shrub or herb, up to 1.5 m high; young stems with very dense, very short stellate pubescence mixed with many, patent, simple hairs. Leaves suborbicular, 20-70 x 13-50 mm, upper surface dark green, lower surface canescent. Flowers: petals yellow; Aug.-May. Fruit with apex of mericarps drawn out into an awn up to 2 mm long.
Soft shrub or herb, 1.5 m high. Young stems with very dense and very short stellate pubescence mixed with numerous patent simple hairs. Apex of mericarps drawn out into an awn up to 2 mm long. Flowers yellow.
Life form annual
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.5
Root system -
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 7-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 21 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Abutilon piloso-cinereum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:558442-1
WFO ID wfo-0000512194
COL ID 8N9N
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Abutilon piloso-cinereum
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