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Abutilon malvifolium (Benth.) J.M.Black
Bastard Marshmallow

Reference
Trans.& Proc.Roy.Soc.South Australia 49:274 (1925)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate to upright perennial, herb or shrub, 0.03-0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep. Calcareous soils. Clay flats, crabhole plains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 July 2003

Scientific Description

Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 20-35 mm long, 10-30 mm wide, not lobed or tripartitely lobed, simply (once-)lobed; margins crenate; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves). Calyx green, 6 mm long, the lobes fused less than half their length, Terminal appendages absent, number of ribs absent. Corolla yellow, 5 mm long, glabrous. Indumentum (outside) Sessile glands absent. Fruits not accrescent. Flowering time September. Distribution Botanical Province Northern or Eremaean, IBRA Bioregion Pilbara, Yalgoo and Ord-Victorian-Plain.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 11 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Ranges, Gascoyne, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Chichester, Edel, Fortescue, Hamersley, Mann-Musgrave Block, Purnululu, Roebourne, South Kimberley Interzone.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Karratha, Ngaanyatjarraku, Shark Bay, Upper Gascoyne.