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Abutilon theophrasti

(Velvetleaf (Or Butterprint))

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Common Names

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Common Names in Arabic:

Shawk el ghanam

Common Names in Bosnian:

Njemacka loza

Common Names in Chinese:

Bai ma, Qing ma, Tang ma

Common Names in Croatian:

Duga konoplja, Duga konopljika, Krstati sljez, Mracnjak, Veliki sljez

Common Names in Danish:

Abutilonhamp, Kinajute

Common Names in Dutch:

Abutilonhennep, Chinese jute

Common Names in English:

Abutilon hemp, Abutilon-Hemp, American jute, American velvet leaf, Butter Print, Butterprint, Butterprint velvetleaf, Butterweed, Buttonweed, China Jute, China-Jute, Chingma jute, Chingma lantern, Cotton weed, Flower of an hour, Indian hemp, Indian Mallow, Indian-Mallow, Kingma jute, Pie maker, Swamp Chinese lantern, Tientsin-Jute, Velvet Leaf, Velvet-Leaf, Velvetleaf, Velvetleaf (Or Butterprint), Velvetleaf Indian Mallow, Velvetweed, Wild cotton

Common Names in French:

Abutilon ordinaire, Chanvre d´abutilon, Fausse guimauve, Guimauve jaune, Jute de Chine, Jute de Manchourie, Jute de Tien-Tsin

Common Names in German:

Abutilonhanf, Bastardeibish, Chinajute, Chinesische Jute, Chinesischer Hanf, Samtpappel, Tien-Tsin Jute

Common Names in Italian:

Abutilo ordinario, Canapa d´abutilon, Canapa d´abutilone, Juta di Cina, Juta di Tien-Tsin, Malva gialla tessile

Common Names in Japanese:

Hinaha giri, Ichibi, Kiri asa, Kiri-Asa, Kusa giri

Common Names in Portuguese:

Cnhamo de abutilon, Falsa-Juta, Juta da China, Juta de Tien-Tsin

Common Names in Romanian:

Pristolnic, Teişor

Common Names in Russian:

канатник теофраста, Kanatnik Teofrasta

Common Names in Serbian:

Lipica, eludarka, uti slez

Common Names in Slovenian:

Barunovec, Podslnecnk Theofrastov, Rumeni slez

Common Names in Spanish:

Camo de abutiln, Malva blanca, Malva de terciopelo, Malva grande, Yute de China, Yute de Ching-Ma, Yute de King-Ma, Yute de la China, Yute de Tien-Tsin

Common Names in Swedish:

Lindmalva

Common Names in Turkish:

Hind keneviri, Manurya keneviri

Description

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Family Malvaceae

Herbs, shrubs , or less often trees ; indumentum usually with peltate scales or stellate hairs . Leaves alternate, stipulate , petiolate ; leaf blade usually palmately veined, entire or various lobed . Flowers solitary, less often in small cymes or clusters , axillary or subterminal , often aggregated into terminal racemes or panicles, usually conspicuous , actinomorphic , usually bisexual (unisexual in Kydia) . Epicalyx often present, forming an involucre around calyx, 3- to many lobed. Sepals 5, valvate , free or connate . Petals 5, free, contorted, or imbricate, basally adnate to base of filament tube . Stamens usually very many, filaments connate into tube; anthers 1-celled. Pollen spiny . Ovary superior, with 2-25 carpels, often separating from one another and from axis; ovules 1 to many per locule; style as many or 2 Ã as many as pistils, apex branched or capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule or a schizocarp, separating into individual mericarps, rarely berrylike when mature (Malvaviscus) ; carpels sometimes with an endoglossum (a crosswise projection from back wall of carpel to make it almost completely septate . Seeds often reniform , glabrous or hairy , sometimes conspicuously so.

About 100 genera and ca. 1000 species: tropical and temperate regions of N and S Hemisphere; 19 genera (four introduced ) and 81 species (24 endemic, 16 introduced) in China.

Molecular studies have shown that the members of the Bombacaceae, Malvaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Tiliaceae form a very well-defined monophyletic group that is divided into ten also rather well-defined clades, only two of which correspond to the traditional families Bombacaceae and Malvaceae. Some of the remaining groups are included entirely within either of the remaining families but others cut across the traditional divide between the Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae. A majority of authors , most notably Bayer and Kubitzki (Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 5: 225-311. 2003), has favored including everything within a greatly enlarged Malvaceae, and treating the individual clades as subfamilies. The alternative view is that the individual clades should be treated as a series of ten families: Bombacaceae (Bombacoideae), Brownlowiaceae (Brownlowioideae), Byttneriaceae (Byttnerioideae), Durionaceae (Durionoideae), Helicteraceae (Helicteroideae), Malvaceae (Malvoideae), Pentapetaceae (Dombeyoideae), Sparrmanniaceae (Grewioideae), Sterculiaceae (Sterculioideae), and Tiliaceae (Tilioideae) (Cheek in Heywood et al. , Fl. Pl. Fam. World. 201-202. 2007) . For the present treatment, we prefer to retain the familiar, traditional four families, so as to maintain continuity with the treatments in FRPS, and to await a consensus on the two alternative strategies for dealing with the very widely accepted clades.

The traditional Malvaceae coincides exactly with one of the major clades. The only possible problem is the relationship with the Bombacaceae, which also has primarily 1-loculed anthers, and some authorities have suggested that the Bombacaceae should be included within the Malvaceae.

Members of the Malvaceae are important as fiber crops (particularly cotton, Gossypium) . Young leaves of many species can be used as vegetables, and species of Abelmoschus and Hibiscus are grown as minor food crops. Many species have attractive flowers and an ever-increasing selection is grown as ornamentals . Several have been cultivated for a very long time, particularly species of Hibiscus, and some of these are not known in the wild.[1]

Genus Abutilon

Herbs, subshrubs , shrubs , or small trees . Stipules usually caducous ; leaf blade usually entire (lobed in A. pictum), palmately veined, base cordate, margin crenate or serrate. Flowers axillary or subterminal , solitary, paired or in small cymes, often aggregated into terminal panicles. Epicalyx absent. Calyx campanulate , lobes 5. Corolla mostly yellow or orange (red in A. roseum), often with dark center, campanulate to wheel-shaped, rarely ± tubular (A. pictum) ; petals 5, basally connate and adnate to filament tube . Anthers many, clustered at filament tube apex. Ovary (5-) 7-20-loculed; ovules 2-9 per carpel; style branches as many as carpels. Fruit a schizocarp, often blackish when mature , subglobose to hemispherical; mericarps (5-) 7-20, eventually dehiscent , apex rounded or acute, sometimes 2-awned, pericarp leathery. Seeds reniform , glabrous or slightly pubescent .

About 200 species: mostly in tropics and subtropics; nine species (three endemic, one introduced ) in China.

Several species have become widespread tropical weeds . One species, Abutilon pictum, is widely grown as an ornamental .[2]

Physical Description

Species Abutilon theophrasti

Herbs subshrublike, annual , 1-2 m tall. Petiole 3-12 cm, stellate hairy ; leaf blade orbicular-cordate, 5-10 cm in diam., both surfaces densely stellate pubescent, base cordate, margin minutely crenate , apex long acuminate. Flowers solitary, axillary , yellow. Pedicel 1-3 cm, pubescent , articulate near apex. Calyx cup-shaped, densely puberulent , lobes 5, ovate , ca. 6 mm. Corolla uniformly yellow; petals obovate , ca. 1 cm. Filament tube glabrous . Ovary 15-20-loculed, 1-1.5 cm, densely pubescent, apex truncate . Capsule semiglobose, ca. 1.2 × 2 cm; mericarps 15-20, stellate pilose, apex 2-awned, awns spreading , 3-5 mm, hairy. Seed reniform , brown, stellate puberulent. Fl. Jul-Aug. [source]

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: June, July, August, September. • Flower Color: goldyellow-orange

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 24-36" tall.

Habitat

Disturbed areas, neglected fields , also cultivated. [source]

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,998 meters (0 to 9,836 feet).[3]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.1 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Abutilon abutilon (L.) Rusby
  2. Abutilon avicennae Gaertn.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000.

Name verified on 21-Feb-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-Apr-1999

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Abutilon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 692 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. - · A. abutiloides (American Indian-Mallow) · A. abutilon · A. acerifolium · A. affine · A. agnesae · A. albescens · A. albidum · A. album · A. alii · A. 'Alpha Glory' · A. ambiguum · A. americanum · A. 'Amiti' · A. amoenum · A. amplexifolium · A. amplissimum · A. amplum · A. 'Amsterdam' · A. anderssonianum · A. andrewsianum · A. andrieuxii · A. anglosomaliae · A. angulatum · A. angulatum var. macrophyllum · A. anodoides · A. 'Apollo' (Chinese Bell Flower) · A. appendiculatum · A. 'Apricot' (Flowering Maple) · A. 'Apricot Belle' · A. 'Apricot Glow' · A. arborescens · A. arboreum · A. arenarium · A. arequipense · A. aristulosum · A. arnottianum · A. 'Ashford Red' (Flowering Maple) · A. asiaticum (Asian Indian Mallow) · A. asiaticum var. albescens · A. asiaticum var. australiense · A. asiaticum var. subasperum · A. asiaticum var. supraviride · A. asperifolium · A. atropurpureum · A. attenuatum · A. aurantiacum · A. aureum · A. auritum (Asian Indian Mallow) · A. australe · A. australe var. malvifolium · A. austroafricanum · A. avicennae · A. avicennae var. chinense · A. 'Baby Orange' (Flowering Maple) · A. badium · A. bakeranum · A. bakeri · A. bakerianum · A. balansae · A. 'Ballerina' · A. barrancae · A. 'Bartley Schwartz' (Chinese Bell Flower) · A. bastardioides · A. bathiei · A. bedfordianum · A. bedfordianum discolor · A. bedfordianum subsp. concolor · A. bedfordianum subsp. discolor · A. behrianum · A. 'Bella Coral' (Flowering Maple) · A. 'Bella Pink' (Flowering Maple) · A. 'Bella Salmon Shades' · A. 'Bella Select Mix' (Flowering Maple) · A. Bella Series · A. 'Bella Vanilla' (Flowering Maple) · A. benadirense · A. 'Benary's Giant' · A. benedictum · A. benense · A. berlandieri (Berlandier's Indian Mallow) · A. 'Bessie Schulson' · A. betschuanicum · A. bicolor · A. bidentatum · A. bidentatum var. forrestii · A. blandum · A. blepharocarpum · A. 'Bloomsbury Can-can' · A. 'Bloomsbury Rose' · A. 'Boule de Neige' · A. bracteosum · A. braunii · A. brenesii · A. bridgesii · A. buchii · A. burandtii · A. bussei · A. cabrae · A. caldemni

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Further Reading

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  • Feng Kuo-mei. 1984. Malvaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 1-102.
  • Feng Kuo-mei. 1984. Malvaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 1-102.

    • Notes

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    Contributors

    Data Sources

    Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

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    Footnotes

    1. Ya Tang, Michael G. Gilbert & Laurence J. Dorr "Malvaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 240, 264,299, 302. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
    2. "Abutilon". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 265, 275. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
    3. Mean = 246.150 meters (807.579 feet), Standard Deviation = 281.630 based on 2,528 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
    Last Revised: 7/1/2009