Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Malvaceae | Genus: Abutilion | Species: Abutilion indicum (Linn.) Sweet |
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| Synonym | Flower Color | Yellow - Orange | |
| Common Name | Thutthi, Indian Mallow, Country Mallow, Velluram, Indian Abutilon, Ooram, Kattooran, Abutilon | Flower Type | Solitary |
| English / Trade Name | Country Mallow | Flowering Period | Oct-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Kanghi | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
| Altitude | Foothills to 1200m | Fruit Type | Capsule |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | A globose schizocarp, green when young, later black; mericarps 15-20, stellate hairy; seeds 3 per cell, ovoid to suborbicular, warty |
| Habitat | Found in wastelands. Common. Widely distributed throughout the tropics and sub tropics. | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Throughout India, tropical and subtropical regions of the world. | Bark Details | terete, green, densely clothed with minutely short stellate-pubescent and simple hairs. |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary, Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Cordate | ||
| Description of Species | Undershrub upto 90 cm; stem, petioles and pedicels densely or sparsely velutinous with minute stellate and a few simple hairs. Leaves ovate to suborbicular, 3-8 × 2-7 cm, sometimes lobed, cordate, usually dentate, acute or acuminate, 7-9-nerved; petiole 2-6 cm; stipules linear 2.5-5 mm, acute. Flowers solitary, axillary, 1.5-2.5 cm across, deflexed; pedicel 3-6.2 cm, usually much longer than petiole, acresscent, jointed near apex. Calyx widely campanulate, 4-5 mm long, 5-fid to 5-parted, shorter than the schizocarp, stellately spreading in fruit; segments broadly ovate to triangular, mucronate, velutinous with stellate hairs on bothsides. Corolla yellow to pale orange without purple centre; petals broadly obovate, apex rounded, truncate or emarginate, base ciliate. Staminal column 5-7 mm long, conical at the basal part, stellate hairy, upper portion tubular, glabrous. Schizocarp globose, 1.5-2.3 cm diam, apex truncate or slightly indented; mericarps 15-22, flattened reniform, much longer than the calyx, 12 × 9 mm, apex truncate, with an erect acute mucro, laterally glabrous, dorsally covered with stellate hairs. Seeds 2-3 per mericarp, reniform, 2-3 mm across, punctate by minute warts, glabrous or sparsely and minutely stellate hairy. | Leaf Details | Leaves ovate to suborbicular, 3-8 × 2-7 cm, sometimes lobed, cordate, usually dentate, acute or acuminate, 7-9-nerved; petiole 2-6 cm; stipules linear 2.5-5 mm, acute. |
