Abutilon theophrasti Medik.
  • Malvenfam. : 28 (1787) 
  • Cencio molle


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Abutilon theophrasti Medik. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000512325. Accessed on: 26 Sep 2023'

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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.

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    Herbs, annual, to 1+ m. Stems erect, stellate-tomentose, without simple hairs. Leaves: stipules lanceolate; petiole subequal to blade; blade concolorous, broadly ovate to suborbiculate, 8–15 cm, ± as long as wide, base cordate, margins crenulate, apex acuminate, surfaces softly pubescent. Inflorescences usually solitary flowers, sometimes cymose or racemose. Flowers: calyx 10 mm, lobes not overlapping, erect in fruit, ovate; corolla pale yellow throughout, petals 8–13 mm; staminal column glabrous; style 13–15-branched. Schizocarps broadly ovoid, 15 × 20 mm; mericarps: apex spinose, spines divergent, 3–6 mm, hirsute. Seeds 3 per mericarp, 3–4 mm, minutely puberulent. 2n = 84.

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    Herb, annual, the stem erect, 0.3-1.2 m high, more or less tomentose, the hairs simple and/or stellate. Leaves long-petiolate, the petiole rather slender, usually longer than the blade, more or less tomentose, the stipules early caducous; blade broadly ovate to subeircular to very broadly ovate, deeply cordate at the base, more or less abruptly long-acuminate at the apex, crenulate or crenate- dentate at the margin, up to 20 cm broad, chartaceous, slightly discolor, 7- to 9-palminerved, puberulus and usually with stellate hairs on both surfaces but the indumentum usually softer and denser beneath, the veins prominent beneath. Flowers axillary and solitary, or in a few-flowered, leafy, terminal panicle, the pedicels shorter than the petioles, articulate usually above the middle, tomentose; calyx broadly campanulate, ca 10 mm long, tomentose, lobed to far beyond the middle, the lobes patent at anthesis, ovate and acute, accrescent; petals patent at anthesis, oblong-obovate, ca 10-13 mm long, yellow or orange, glabrous at the insertion of the staminal tube; androecium shorter than the calyx and corolla, the staminal tube much inflated, glabrous. Fruit broadly cylindric, umbilicate, villous to densely pubescent, the mericarps about 15, 12-15 mm long (awns excluded), long-aristate at the apex, the awns widely spreading and ca 3-5 mm long, rounded at the base, rigid-chartaceous, 3-seeded; seeds ca 3.5-4 mm long, inconspicuously foveolate and minutely puberulus.

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    Annual, 1-2 m tall velutinous herb. Leaves with 2-20 cm long petiole; stipules 5-8 mm long, caducous; blade 2-16 cm across, usually orbicular or broadly ovate, long acuminate, deeply cordate at base, minutely crenate-dentate or undulate, with 7-11 prominent nerves, velutinous-stellate hairy on both sides, more velutinous beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary or few flowered terminal raceme; pedicel 1.5-4 cm long, tomentose, articulate near the apex. Calyx c. 1 cm long, fused below the middle; lobes 4-7 mm broad, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, stellate tomentose without, less so within. Corolla yellow; petals 1.2 cm long and broad, obovate, glabrous. Staminal column 2-4 mm long, glabrous. Ovary globose, c. 3 mm across, villous. Fruit 12-15 mm long (awns excluded), 15-20 mm broad, black.

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    Stout branching annual 1–1.5 m, softly hairy throughout with few-armed stellate hairs; lvs cordate, 10–15 cm long and wide, acuminate, entire or obscurely toothed, on petioles about as long; peduncles joined above the middle, elongating to 2–3 cm at maturity; fls yellow, 1.5–2.5 cm wide; head of fr 2–3 cm wide; carpels commonly 10–15, densely hairy, with conspicuous horizontally spreading beaks; 2n=42. Native of s. Asia, established as a weed in fields and waste places nearly throughout our range but more abundant southward. July–Oct. (A. abutilon)

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    Morphology

    30–150 cm hoch, aufrecht, von einfachen Haaren und Sternhaaren dicht samthaarig. Blätter 5–20 cm lang, breit herzförmig, lang zugespitzt, gekerbt, lang gestielt. Blüten gestielt, einzeln oder zu wenigen in den Achseln der oberen Stängelblätter.

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    Habit

    Herb

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    Ecology

    7–9. Äcker, Ruderalstellen, kollin. CH, mit Saatgut eingeschleppt und stellenweise eingebürgert, früher als Faserpflanze kultiviert.

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    Distribution

    A weed native to India, but introduced and fully naturalized in many regions in North America; apparently of recent introduction on San Jose Island.

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    Flora of China @ efloras.orgGeneral Information

    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.

    Flora of PakistanGeneral Information

    Annual, 1-2 m tall velutinous herb. Leaves with 2-20 cm long petiole; stipules 5-8 mm long, caducous; blade 2-16 cm across, usually orbicular or broadly ovate, long acuminate, deeply cordate at base, minutely crenate-dentate or undulate, with 7-11 prominent nerves, velutinous-stellate hairy on both sides, more velutinous beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary or few flowered terminal raceme; pedicel 1.5-4 cm long, tomentose, articulate near the apex. Calyx c. 1 cm long, fused below the middle; lobes 4-7 mm broad, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, stellate tomentose without, less so within. Corolla yellow; petals 1.2 cm long and broad, obovate, glabrous. Staminal column 2-4 mm long, glabrous. Ovary globose, c. 3 mm across, villous. Fruit 12-15 mm long (awns excluded), 15-20 mm broad, black.

    Flora Helvetica – Illustrierte Flora der SchweizMorphology

    30–150 cm hoch, aufrecht, von einfachen Haaren und Sternhaaren dicht samthaarig. Blätter 5–20 cm lang, breit herzförmig, lang zugespitzt, gekerbt, lang gestielt. Blüten gestielt, einzeln oder zu wenigen in den Achseln der oberen Stängelblätter.

    Ecology

    7–9. Äcker, Ruderalstellen, kollin. CH, mit Saatgut eingeschleppt und stellenweise eingebürgert, früher als Faserpflanze kultiviert.

    Flora de PanamaHabit

    Herb

    General Information

    Herb, annual, the stem erect, 0.3-1.2 m high, more or less tomentose, the hairs simple and/or stellate. Leaves long-petiolate, the petiole rather slender, usually longer than the blade, more or less tomentose, the stipules early caducous; blade broadly ovate to subeircular to very broadly ovate, deeply cordate at the base, more or less abruptly long-acuminate at the apex, crenulate or crenate- dentate at the margin, up to 20 cm broad, chartaceous, slightly discolor, 7- to 9-palminerved, puberulus and usually with stellate hairs on both surfaces but the indumentum usually softer and denser beneath, the veins prominent beneath. Flowers axillary and solitary, or in a few-flowered, leafy, terminal panicle, the pedicels shorter than the petioles, articulate usually above the middle, tomentose; calyx broadly campanulate, ca 10 mm long, tomentose, lobed to far beyond the middle, the lobes patent at anthesis, ovate and acute, accrescent; petals patent at anthesis, oblong-obovate, ca 10-13 mm long, yellow or orange, glabrous at the insertion of the staminal tube; androecium shorter than the calyx and corolla, the staminal tube much inflated, glabrous. Fruit broadly cylindric, umbilicate, villous to densely pubescent, the mericarps about 15, 12-15 mm long (awns excluded), long-aristate at the apex, the awns widely spreading and ca 3-5 mm long, rounded at the base, rigid-chartaceous, 3-seeded; seeds ca 3.5-4 mm long, inconspicuously foveolate and minutely puberulus.

    Distribution

    A weed native to India, but introduced and fully naturalized in many regions in North America; apparently of recent introduction on San Jose Island.

    Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern US and CanadaGeneral Information

    Stout branching annual 1–1.5 m, softly hairy throughout with few-armed stellate hairs; lvs cordate, 10–15 cm long and wide, acuminate, entire or obscurely toothed, on petioles about as long; peduncles joined above the middle, elongating to 2–3 cm at maturity; fls yellow, 1.5–2.5 cm wide; head of fr 2–3 cm wide; carpels commonly 10–15, densely hairy, with conspicuous horizontally spreading beaks; 2n=42. Native of s. Asia, established as a weed in fields and waste places nearly throughout our range but more abundant southward. July–Oct. (A. abutilon)

    Flora of North America @ efloras.orgGeneral Information

    Herbs, annual, to 1+ m. Stems erect, stellate-tomentose, without simple hairs. Leaves: stipules lanceolate; petiole subequal to blade; blade concolorous, broadly ovate to suborbiculate, 8–15 cm, ± as long as wide, base cordate, margins crenulate, apex acuminate, surfaces softly pubescent. Inflorescences usually solitary flowers, sometimes cymose or racemose. Flowers: calyx 10 mm, lobes not overlapping, erect in fruit, ovate; corolla pale yellow throughout, petals 8–13 mm; staminal column glabrous; style 13–15-branched. Schizocarps broadly ovoid, 15 × 20 mm; mericarps: apex spinose, spines divergent, 3–6 mm, hirsute. Seeds 3 per mericarp, 3–4 mm, minutely puberulent. 2n = 84.

    Other Local Names

    NameLanguageCountry
    Cencio molleItalianCH
    Chinesische SamtpappelGermanCH
    Abutilon de ThéophrasteFrenchCH
    Butterprint, China jute, chingma, Indian hemp, pie-marker, velvetleaf

     Information From

    Flora de Panama
    http://www.tropicos.org/Project/PAC
    Robert E. Woodson, Jr. and Robert W. Schery Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 67, No. 4 (1980), pp. ii-xxxiii
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    Flora Helvetica – Illustrierte Flora der Schweiz
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    Flora Helvetica – Illustrierte Flora der Schweiz, Konrad Lauber, Gerhart Wagner, Andreas Gygax. Haupt Verlag 2018.
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    • C Flora of North America Association
    Flora of Pakistan
    http://www.tropicos.org/Project/Pakistan
    Flora of Pakistan. Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed on Jun. 2020.
    • D Missouri Botanical Garden
    Flora of China @ efloras.org
    'Flora of China @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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    Malvaceae
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    World Flora Online Data. 2022.
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    Flora images. Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed on Jun. 2018.
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    Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern US and Canada
    https://www.nybg.org/
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