Common name: Desert Lantern
Abutilon otocarpum F.Muell. APNI*
Description: Small shrub covered with a velvety-grey pubescence.
Leaves with lamina circular or broad-ovate, 1.5–5 cm long, margins toothed.
Calyx c. 12 mm long, strongly 5-keeled in lower half, lobes acuminate, longer than tube. Corolla c. 12 mm long.
Fruit c. 8 mm diam., 10 mm long; mericarps 10–20, rounded or angled.
Flowering: most of year.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in semi-arid districts; on red sandy soils, sand rises and dunes.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A. S.A. N.T.
Some specimens with smaller flowers and fruits have been separated as A. species (aff. otocarpum), as in Jacobs & Pickard (1981). The apices of the mericarps are acute and the stems have long straight hairs in addition to the short tomentum. CWS NWP SWP FNWP.
Text by A. S. Mitchell & E. H. Norris Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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