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Description
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Flora of Zimbabwe
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Distribution
Localities documented in Tropicos sources
Australia (Oceania)
Brazil (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Colombia (South America)
Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.
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Forzza, R. C. & et al. 2010. 2010 Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil. http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/100002289
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Molina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/866
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Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. 2011. Flora de Antioquia. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares, vol. 2. Listado de las Plantas Vasculares del Departamento de Antioquia. Pp. 1-939.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/100008595
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Fryxell, P. A. 1993. Malvaceae. 16: 1–175. In J. Rzedowski & G. Calderón de Rzedowski Fl. Bajío. Instituto de Ecología A.C., Pátzcuaro.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1014358
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USDA, NRCS. 2007. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/100004579
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Locations of barcode samples
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Statistics of barcoding coverage
| Specimen Records: | 40 | Public Records: | 3 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 53 | Public Species: | 3 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 45 | Public BINs: | 0 |
| Species: | 17 | ||
| Species With Barcodes: | 13 | ||
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Wikipedia
Abutilon
Abutilon (pron.: /əˈbjuːtɨlɒn/)[2] is a large genus of approximately 150 species of broadleaf plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus includes annuals, perennials, shrubs, and small trees found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world.
Common names include Chinese bell flower, Chinese lantern, Indian mallow, and Flowering maple (for the maple-like leaves of some species, although the genus is not related to the true maples). Abutilon species are used as food plants by the larvae of some lepidoptera species including Yellow-banded Skipper (which feeds exclusively on A. avicennae) and Chionodes mariona.
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Description
Abutilons are often pubescent, perennial herbs or small shrubs, sometimes small trees. They range in height from approximately .5 to 3 meters (1.5 to 10 ft)[3] The leaves, borne on long, thin stalks, are simple, alternate, palmate, lobed, and many have a shape reminiscent of a maple leaf, hence the common name flowering maple. They are often edged in white or mottled. The five-petaled, pendulous flowers also have long, thin stalks, and are usually bell-shaped, especially when first opening. Their stamens are combined into a tube around the style. The flowers come in shades of red, pink, orange, yellow and white.[4][5][6]
Distribution
Most abutilons are native to the Western Hemisphere, with the majority of species occurring in Brazil and surrounding areas of South America. A few species are native to North America, Central America, and Australia.[5]
Cultivation
Abutilons are popular garden plants in subtropical areas, and under glass or as houseplants in temperate areas. The hardiest species, A. vitifolium from Chile, is hardy in warm temperate areas with moderate frost down to about −10 °C (14 °F). Some cultivars can be grown outdoors as summer bedding.
The following hybrid cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:-
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Species
Selected species include:
- A. abutiloides (Jacq.) Garcke – Bushy Abutilon[21]
- A. albescens Miq.
- A. auritum (Wall. ex Link) Sweet – Asian Indian Mallow
- A. bedfordianum (Hook.) A.St.-Hil. – Bedford's Mallow
- A. berlandieri Gray ex S.Watson – Berlandier's Indian Mallow
- A. bidentatum A. Rich.
- A. buchii Urb.
- A. darwinii Hook.f. – Darwin's Mallow
- A. eremitopetalum Caum – Hiddenpetal Indian Mallow (Lānaʻi in Hawaii)
- A. fruticosum Guill. & Perr. – Texas Indian Mallow
- A. giganteum (Jacq.) Sweet
- A. grandiflorum G.Don
- A. grandifolium (Willd.) Sweet – Hairy Indian Mallow
- A. greveanum (Baill.) Hochr.
- A. hirtum (Lam.) Sweet – Hairy Abutilon[21]
- A. hulseanum Torr. ex A.Gray
- A. hypoleucum A.Gray – Whiteleaf Indian Mallow
- A. incanum (Link) Sweet – Hoary Abutilon, Pelotazo (Southwestern United States, northern Mexico, Hawaii)
- A. indicum (L.) Sweet – Indian Mallow
- A. insigne Planch.
- A. julianae Endl.
- A. lauraster Hochr.
- A. leonardi Urb. – Woolly Abutilon
- A. leucopetalum (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
- A. listeri Baker f.
- A. longicuspe Hochst. ex A. Rich.
- A. malacum S. Watson – Yellow Indian Mallow
- A. mauritianum (Jacq.) Medik.
- A. megapotamicum A.St.-Hil. & Naudin – Trailing Abutilon
- A. menziesii Seem. – Koʻoloaʻula (Hawaii)
- A. mollicomum (Willd.) Sweet – Sonoran Indian Mallow
- A. mollissimum
- A. muticum
- A. niveum Griseb. – White-flowered Abutilon
- A. palmeri A.Gray – Palmer's Indian Mallow
- A. parishii A.Watson – Parish's Indian Mallow
- A. parvulum A.Gray – Dwarf Indian Mallow
- A. pauciflorum A.St.-Hil. – Woolly Abutilon[22]
- A. permolle (Willd.) Sweet (Velvety Abutilon[21]
- A. pictum (Gillies ex Hook.) Walp. – Redvein Abutilon, Red Vein Indian Mallow (syn. A. striatum)
- A. pitcairnense Fosberg
- A. purpurascens (Link) K.Schum.
- A. reflexum (Juss. ex Cav.) Sweet
- A. ramiflorum A.St.-Hil.
- A. reventum S.Watson – Yellowflower Indian Mallow
- A. sachetianum Fosberg
- A. sandwicense (O.Deg.) Christoph. – Greenflower Indian Mallow (Oahʻu in Hawaii)
- A. sellowianum (Klotzsch) Regel
- A. theophrasti Medik. – Velvetleaf, Indian Mallow, Butterweed
- A. thurberi A.Gray – Thurber's Indian Mallow
- A. thyrsodendron Griseb.
- A. trisulcatum (Jacq.) Britton & Millsp.[23]
- A. venosum Lem.
- A. virginianum Krapov. – Virgin Islands Abutilon
- A. wrightii A.Gray
Hybrids
- Abutilon × hybridum (unknown parentage)
- Abutilon × milleri (A. megapotamicum × A. pictum)
- Abutilon × suntense (A. ochsenii × A. vitifolium)
Formerly placed here
- Bakeridesia integerrima (Hook.) D.M.Bates (as A. chittendenii Standl.)
- Briquetia spicata (Kunth) Fryxell (as A. spicatum Kunth)
- Corynabutilon ochsenii (Phil.) Kearney (as A. ochsenii (Phil.) Reiche)
- Corynabutilon vitifolium (Cav.) Kearney (as A. vitifolium (Cav.) C.Presl)[24]
Gallery
A. incanum (Hoary Abutilon)
Flower of A. megapotamicum
A. menziesii (Kooloaula)
A. menziesii flowers
Houseplant with tag "Bella Red Flowering Maple"
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Notes
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- ^ a b c "!Abutilon Mill.". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. 2012-06-08. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40003039. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
- ^ Anne Hildyard. Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World. Marshall Cavendish. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7614-7194-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=5yp9qz59DY0C&pg=PA22.
- ^ Jennings, O. E. (1901). "Notes on Abutilons". Annual Report of the Columbus Horticultural Society 16: 108. http://books.google.com/books?id=hqY1AAAAIAAJ&dq=Abutilons%20palmate&pg=RA1-PA108#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ a b Cronin, J. (June 1908). Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture. ed. "Garden Notes". Journal of Agriculture (R.S. Brain, govt. printer): 370.
- ^ Frank Moore Colby; Talcott Williams (1918). The New international encyclopædia. Dodd, Mead and company. p. 59. http://books.google.com/books?id=6GwNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA59.
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon megapotamicum AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon × milleri hort. AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Canary Bird' AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Cannington Carol' (v) AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Cannington Peter' (v) AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon × suntense 'Jermyns' AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Kentish Belle' AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Linda Vista Peach' AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Marion' AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Nabob' AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Orange Glow' (v) AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Savitzii' (v) AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon 'Souvenir de Bonn' (v) AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ RHS Plant Selector Abutilon vitifolium 'Veronica Tennant' AGM / RHS Gardening
- ^ a b c Britton & Millspaugh, p. 265
- ^ Britton & Millspaugh, p. 266
- ^ Britton & Millspaugh, p. 265–266
- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Abutilon". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?24. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
References
- Britton, Nathaniel Lord; Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1920). "Malvaceae". The Bahama Flora. p. 264. http://books.google.com/books?id=0xhVAAAAMAAJ&vq=%22Malvaceae&pg=PA264#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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