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Carpels 8-12 |
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Carpels more than 12 |
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2 (1) |
Fruit cylindric, less than 1 cm long |
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(3) |
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Fruit ovoid, more than 1 cm long |
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3 (2) |
Carpels beaked; leaves glabrescent |
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Abutilon ramosum |
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Carpels hardly beaked, truncate; leaves hoary |
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Abutilon fruticosum |
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4 (2) |
Plant with long spreading hairs on branches, petioles and pedicels. Sepals 1.5-2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, larger than fruit |
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Abutilon grandifolium |
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Plant with appressed hairs. Sepals c. 1 cm long, 4-6 mm broad, smaller than fruit |
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Abutilon pakistanicum |
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5 (1) |
Carpels truncate or/and with a distinct mucro |
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(6) |
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Carpels obtuse |
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6 (5) |
Sepals leathery, exceeding the fruit. Fruit not
differentiated into ridges and furrows (finely truncate) |
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Abutilon sepalum |
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Sepals not leathery, not exceeding the fruit. Fruit differentiated into ridges and furrows |
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7 (6) |
Mericarps with 2 long ultimately horizontally spreading 3-5 mm long awns. Leaf margins minutely toothed. Staminal tube glabrous |
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Abutilon theophrasti |
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Mericarps with 1 mm long awns. Leaf margins prominently toothed. Staminal tube stellate hairy |
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8 (7) |
Flowers pale yellow, 1-1.5 cm across. Mericarps gradually acuminate |
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Abutilon bidentatum |
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Flowers yellow to orange-yellow, 2.5 cm or more across. Mericarps acute or with a small mucro |
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9 (8) |
Stipules lanceolate. Branches, petioles and pedicels with dense, spreading and clammy hairs |
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(10) |
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Stipules linear. Hairs mostly appressed, not clammy |
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10 (9) |
Branches and leaves white tomentose and velutinous. Mericarps 15-20, somewhat obtuse. Fruit usually subglobose, with c. 10 mm long calyx. (Entire plant velvety and with short spreading hairs) |
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Abutilon figarianum |
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Branches and leaves yellowish tomentose and scabrulous (at least on the older parts) Mericarps 20-30, with a small mucro. Fruit truncate, with 10-13 mm long calyx. (Entire plant hispidulous, and with long, spreading hairs) |
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Abutilon hirtum |
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11 (9) |
Fruit with ridges and furrows towards the apex only, mericarps more than 20, with a small mucro, 7-10 mm long, 5-6 mm broad |
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Abutilon karachianum |
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Fruit with deep ridges and furrows all over; mericarps 15-20, acute or somewhat acuminate, 10-18 mm long, 7-8 mm broad (dehiscent before breaking away from the central axis) |
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12 (11) |
Mericarps remain erect at maturity, dehiscent after breaking away from the central axis. Short spreading hairs present at least on young parts |
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Abutilon indicum |
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Mericarps, spreading stellately at maturity, dehiscent before breaking away from the central axis. Spreading hairs lacking, only present at the top of the petiole |
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Abutilon ghafoorianum |
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13 (5) |
Mericarps 28-39, each 2-seeded (or 1 by abortion). Leaf scabrous above, stipules linear. Flowers axillary, solitary or in fascicles of 2-4, Petals ± twice the length of calyx. Fruiting calyx 7-10 mm long |
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Abutilon muticum |
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Mericarps 23-31, each 3-seeded. Leaf almost velvety above, stipules lanceolate. Flowers in pseudoraceme or panicle. Petals 2.5-3 times the length of calyx. Fruiting calyx 10-17 mm long |
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14 (13) |
Fruit stalk 1-8 cm long, articulate lower part (of the stalk below the articulation) somewhat thinner, less hairy and 4-25 times longer than the upper. Fruiting calyx 12-17 mm long, usually larger than fruit, inner surface with short and long hairs. Fruit densely covered with short and long hairs, ridges and furrows less conspicuous |
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Abutilon alii |
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Fruit stalk 1-3.5 cm long, articulate, uniformly hairy and thick all over except the joint, lower part shorter-4 times longer than the upper. Fruiting calyx 10-12 mm long, smaller than the mature fruit, inner surface with hairs of uniform length. Fruit with hairs of uniform length, ridges and furrows conspicuous |
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Abutilon pannosum |
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