Family: Malvaceae
Abutilon otocarpum
Citation:
F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:13 (1854).
Synonymy: Kochia decaptera, Kochia triptera Common name: Desert Chinese-lantern, desert lantern.
Description:
Small compact or erect shrub to 60 cm high, covered with a dense velvety tomentum with long spreading hairs on the branches and petioles; leaves velvety-pubescent on both surfaces, crenate, cordate, orbicular to narrow-ovate, 1.5-6 cm long, thick.
Peduncles usually shorter than the petioles; calyx 6-12 mm long, strongly 5-keeled or almost winged in the lower half, the acuminate lobes longer than the tube; corolla yellow, scarcely exceeding the calyx.
Capsule shorter than the calyx, 7-10 mm diam., composed of 10-20 pubescent fruitlets which are rounded at the top and ear-shaped, each containing 3 glabrous wrinkled seeds.
| Abutilon otocarpum twig, fruit with some fruitlets removed and seed.
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Image source: fig 432g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 486.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU. all mainland States.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: all months.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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