Abutilon guineense - Indian Abutilon

Indian Abutilon is an erect herb, 0.5-2 m tall, whole plant gray finely velvet-hairy. Flowers arise singly in leaf-axils. Petals are yellow, obovate, about 0.6 or 1.8 cm, hairless, bearded on claw. Staminal column hairless or hairy. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped or disk-shaped, about 1.2 x 1.7-2 cm, sepals rounded-ovate or ovate-tapering, about 6 mm, densely finely velvet-hairy, tip pointed. Flower-stalks are 4-7 cm, velvet-hairy. Stipules are thread-like, 3-6 mm, reflexed; leaf-stalk shorter to slightly longer than leaf blade, velvet-hairy. Leaves are heart-shaped, ovate, or nearly round, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, 1.5-8 x 1-6 cm, below densely velvet-hairy, above sparsely scabrous with long hairs or velvet-hairy, base heart-shaped, margin irregularly rounded toothed or toothed, tip blunt, pointed, or tapering. Fruit is flattened-spherical, about 0.7 x 1-1.5 cm in diameter; mericarps 14-20, scabrous, tip pointed. Despite the name, Indian Abutilon is native to Tropical & S. Africa, Madagascar and China. It is naturalized in India.