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Ragged Mallow

Abutilon pannosum

Description:

'Ragged Mallow' is an erect perennial herb or shrub. The plant parts are velvet hairy. The species name pannosum means ragged, tattered. Leaves, 4-13 cm across, are broadly ovate, irregularly toothed, blunt or sharp tipped, heart-shaped at base, 7-9 nerved and velvety on both sides. Leaf stalk is 2-15 cm long. Yellow flowers occur solitary in leaf axils, or appear in racemes or panicles at the end of branches. Flowers are 3-4.5 cm across, yellow. Stamen tube 5 mm long. Fruit is spherical, 1-1.5 cm across, with visible ridges and furrows. Seeds are kidney shaped.

Habitat:

Roadside.

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Karnataka, India

Spotted on Oct 22, 2014
Submitted on Nov 16, 2014

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