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Abutilon indicum var. indicum
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Abutilon indicum (L.) Sweet, Hort. Brit. (ed.1) 54. 1826, var. indicum; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 326. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 91(65). 1915; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 45. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 86. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 74. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 57. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 78. 1990; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 266. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 77. 1994; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 192. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 79. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 33. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 78. 2005; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 378. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 115. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 146. 2009.
Sida indica L., Cent. Pl. 2: 26. 1756.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kaluram, Kattooram, Oorpam, Ooram, Thuthi, Velluram, Vennkurunthotti, Indian Mallow
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Country mallow, Indian mallow
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Description:
Shrubs to 2 m tall; stem terete, green, densely clothed with minutely short stellate-pubescent and simple hairs. Leaves 3-8 x 4-7 cm, ovate-orbicular, base cordate, margins crenate-dentate, apex acute or acuminate, 5-7-nerved from base, velvety, sparsely stellate-hairy above, glaucous beneath with dense stellate indumentum; petioles 2-6 cm long; stipules up to 4 mm long, linear. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 4-5 cm long, jointed very near the top. Calyx tube c. 4 mm long; lobes 5, c. 4 mm long, ovate, pubescent with minute stellate hairs, apex acuminate. Corolla 2-2.5 cm across, orangish-yellow; petals 5, c. 1 x 1.2 cm, obovate, rounded or emarginate at apex. Staminal column c. 6 mm long, antheriferous at apex. Ovary c. 4 mm across, globose, densely pubescent with silvery white hairs; styles 15-20, to 1 cm long; stigma capitate. Schizocarp to 1.2 x 2 cm, globular with a flattened apex; mericarps 15-20, to 12 x 9 mm, reniform, flattened, densely stellate-hairy, upper part rounded mucronate, blackish when mature. Seeds to 3 mm long, ovoid or reniform, warty, black.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-April
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Scrub jungles and wastelands
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Distribution:
Tropics and subtropics of the world
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Mangavada, Tiruvalla, Thenkara, Alleppey town, Mampad
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