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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Abutilon oxycarpum

Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:204 (1863).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Flannel weed, straggly lantern bush.

Description:
Small slender herbs or small shrubs 60-90 cm high, covered with a close stellate tomentum and usually with longer spreading hairs on the branches and petioles; leaves pubescent on both surfaces, crenate, cordate, ovate-lanceolate to orbicular, acuminate or acute, 1.3-9 cm long, on a slender petiole.

Peduncles longer than the petioles and sometimes exceeding the leaves; calyx 5-7 mm long, indented at the base, with lanceolate lobes slightly longer than the tube; corolla yellow, less than twice as long as the calyx.

Capsule as long as to twice as long as the calyx, 5-8 mm diam., truncate at the summit, composed of 10 or fewer fruitlets each with 2 short spreading-erect awns c. 2 mm long and 2 or 3 glabrous seeds.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Some material previously identified as this species has been transferred to A. theophrasti.

Author: Not yet available


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