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Hoary abutilon

(Abutilon incanum)

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Description

Abutilon icanum, also known as hoary abutilon, pelotazo, pelotazo chico, tronadora, and maʻo (Hawaiʻi), is a shrub widespread throughout the arid, warm regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico as well as Hawaiʻi. It grows to between 0.5-2 metres (1.6-6.6 ft) in height; the leaves are ovate to lance-ovate in shape, with crenate margins, and sizes ranging from 0.5-3 centimetres (0.20-1.18 in) in width and 1.5–6 centimetres (0.59-2.36 in) in length. The solitary 5-petaled flowers are generally orange; in ssp. incanum they are 6-10 millimetres (0.24-0.39 in) long and orange-yellow, while in ssp. pringlei they are just 4-6 millimetres (0.16-0.24 in) and a deep orange with maroon spots. The 5-8-millimetre (0.20–0.31 in) fruits are capsules with 4-6 cells. It favors rocky slopes and gravelly flats, and occurs in arroyos, at elevations up to 1,370 metres (4,490 ft). Requiring warm-season rain and mild winters, it is found in the Sonoran Desert, but not the Mojave Desert. In Hawaiʻi, maʻo can be found growing in dry forests and low shrublands at elevations from sea level to 220 metres (720 ft). Abutilon incanum is a species of Magnoliopsida first described by Heinrich Friedrich Link, and given the simplified Asian name by Robert Sweet. Abutilon incanum belongs to the genus Abutilon, and the family Malvaceae. Abutilon is a large genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. General common names include Indian mallow and velvetleaf ornamental varieties may be known as room maple, parlor maple, or flowering maple. The genus name is an 18th-century New Latin word that came from the Arabic ’abū-ṭīlūn, the name given by Avicenna to this or a similar genus. The type species is Abutilon theophrasti. Several species formerly placed in Abutilon, including the cultivated species and hybrids commonly known as "flowering maples", have recently (2012, 2014) been transferred to the new genus Callianthe.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Malvales
Family:Malvaceae
Genus:Abutilon
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