Abutilon Mill.
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Descripción
Subshrubs or shrubs to small trees, glabrescent or pubescent, sometimes glandular-pubescent. Leaves petiolate, the blades elliptic, ovate, or cordiform, sometimes lobed or parted, usually crenate or serrate (rarely subentire), lacking foliar nectaries. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or aggregated into racemes or panicles, less commonly into umbels; involucel absent; calyx lobes lanceolate, ovate, or cordate; corolla often yellow or orange, less often white, lavender, rose, or purplish; androecium usually included (rarely exserted), the column filamentiferous at apex; styles 5 to many; stigmas capitate. Fruits schizocarpic (but sometimes pseudocapsular); mericarps 5 to many, twice the length of the column, usually 1-celled (rarely partitioned by an endoglossum), usually apically acute or acuminate to spinescent (rarely rounded), usually with 3~6 seeds each, not inflated, more or less elliptic in cross section, dorsally dehiscent; seeds glabrous or slightly pubescent. Base chromosome number: x = 7, 8.A
Discusión taxonómica
Abutilon includes about 200 species from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia; 45 occur in Mexico.A