- Family: Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus: Abutilon Mill.
Abutilon longicuspe Hochst. ex A.Rich.
- Genus: Abutilon Mill.
[FZ]
Malvaceae, A. W. Exell. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial shrub up to 5 m. tall; stems when young somewhat angular to subterete, densely covered with a short velutinous to somewhat harsh stellate indumentum, usually of a greyish-olive colour and as a rule with long whitish spreading hairs (very rarely absent) at least on the very young parts, when older terete, glabrescent, woody and ultimately with a grey cortex, faintly fissured by rather short longitudinal markings.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaf-lamina up to 20 × 18 cm. (much smaller in upper leaves), suborbicular-cordate or broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, with a usually long narrow acumen and a deep narrow basal sinus, somewhat irregularly but usually distinctly crenate or serrate; the upper surface dark green, very shortly stellately subvelutinous, the lower surface much paler, grey, densely stellate-velutinous, and sometimes in addition with few-rayed to simple stiff stellate hairs mainly on the distinct prominent reticulate nervation and with long patent hairs on the main veins near the base; petiole usually about as long as the lamina, velutinous, with or without long patent hairs.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers pale mauve, lavender or lilac with deep-red-purple centre and radiating purple veins, numerous, axillary, on main branches and also on short axillary shoots, aggregated in terminal and lateral, ultimately leafless, often large pseudo-panicles; pedicels usually under 3 cm. long, velutinous, with or without pilose hairs, articulated in upper 6 mm.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx 4–6 mm. long, cupuliform, tomentose and sometimes also pilose; lobes 4–7 mm. long, triangular or ovate-triangular, acute or mucronate, tomentose-velutinous, with inconspicuous median veins.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals c. 12 mm. long, obovate-obcuneate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Staminal tube deep red-purple and glabrous in conical portion, stellate-hairy at the apex.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Mericarps 12–25, c. 10 × 5–6 mm., semi-orbicular-reniform, rounded and muticous, papery and brittle when mature, 1-seeded. Fruit c. 10 × 15 mm., subglobose to depressed-globose, umbilicate, densely stellate-hairy.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds c. 3 × 2 mm.
[FTEA]
Malvaceae, Bernard Verdcourt & Geoffrey Mwachala. Pavonia, B Verdcourt; Kosteletzkya, OJ Blanchard Jr.; Gossypium, P Fryxell & B Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2009
- Type
- Types: Ethiopia, Memsach, Genniam, Schimper 258 (P, syn.; BM!, FT, K! isosyn.) & near Adua, Mt Scholoda, Schimper 1511 (P, syn.; BM!, FT, K!, isosyn.)
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubby herb to softly woody shrub (even described as a small tree) 1–4.5(–5.5) m tall, sometimes clump-forming
- Morphology Stem
- Young stems and most of plant densely velvety stellate-tomentellous, sometimes slightly angular; older parts of stem with typical malvaceous pattern of longitudinal impressions
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves somewhat discolorous; lamina ovate, 2.5–22 × 1.6–16 cm, acute to more usually acuminate to longacuminate at the apex, shallowly crenate or serrate, the fine stellate indumentum above not obscuring the green leaf surface but fine greyish tomentum covering the undersurface or with long hairs in some variants; petiole 1.5–15(–19) cm long; stipules linear, 6 mm long
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers in terminal or lateral panicles up to 23 × 13 cm; pedicel 0.5–3(–4) cm long, the upper part beyond the joint 4 mm long; calyx 6–9(–12) mm long, brownish stellate-pubescent and sometimes with long hairs, lobed for 1/3 to 1/2 into oblong-ovate to triangular lobes 6–8 × 4–5 mm with midrib often raised
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white, pink, lilac or mauve often with a dark purple to inky blue centre (never yellow); petals obovate, 0.8–1.4(–2) × ± 1 cm.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Staminal column often dark purple with characteristic transparent simple to 2–3-fid trichomes above (often flattened in dry state) but glabrous on the widened part though there may be long hairs at basal edge of petals
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit depressed oblate, ± 9 mm long, 1.3–1.5 cm diameter, densely stellate-hairy when young Mericarps (13–)23–27, semicircularreniform, 6–10 × 4–7 mm, rounded above without a dorsal angle, 1-seeded
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed oblong-cordiform, 2 mm long, glabrous.
Native to:
Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Abutilon longicuspe Hochst. ex A.Rich. appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 2007 | Katende [1865], Uganda | K000449446 | ||
| Dec 1, 2007 | Mwachala [1250], Kenya | K000449447 | ||
| Jan 1, 1958 | Cecil, E. [196] | K000240585 | ||
| Smith, A.R. [4725], Yemen | 43367.000 | |||
| K000240393 | isosyntype | |||
| Ethiopia | K000240394 | isosyntype | ||
| Ethiopia | K000240395 | isosyntype | ||
| Gurke [8921] | K000240386 | Unknown type material | ||
| Van Heist [1980], Uganda | K000449448 |
First published in Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 69 (1847)
Accepted by
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2012). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 4: 1-431. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
- Verdcourt, B. & Mwachala, G.M. (2009). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Malvaceae: 1-170.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Boulos, L. (2000). Flora of Egypt 2: 1-352. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
- Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Edwards, S., Tadesse, M. & Hedberg, I. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 2(2): 1-456. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
- Exell, A.W. & Wild, H. (eds.) (1961). Flora Zambesiaca 1(2): 337-581. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Robyns, W. & al. (eds.) (1948-1963). Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi 1-10.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Fl. Eth. & Eritr. 2 (2): 241, fig. 82.21.1–5 (1995).
- U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 101, t. 29 (1994)
- Cribb & Leedal, Mt. Fl. S. Tanz.: 91, t. 6a (1982)
- F.Z. 1: 489, t. 93/4 (1961)
- Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 223 (1953)
- Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1: 373 (1951)
- Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 298 (1949)
- P.O.A. C: 265 (1895)
- F.T.A. 1: 184 (1868)
- Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 69 (1847)
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