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''Abutilon'' 〔''Sunset Western Garden Book.'' 1995. 606–07.〕 is a large genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics〔(''Abutilon''. ) Flora of China.〕 of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia.〔Esteves, G. L. and A. Krapovickas. (2002). (New species of ''Abutilon'' (Malvaceae) from Sao Paulo State, Brazil. ) ''Kew Bulletin'' 57(2), 479-82.〕 General common names include Indian mallow〔(''Abutilon''. ) Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).〕 and velvetleaf.〔(Genus: ''Abutilon'' Mill. ) Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).〕 The genus name is an 18th-century New Latin word that came from the Arabic ' (),〔 Transcribed as ''abū-taylūn'' in the Plant Index. The ''New Oxford American Dictionary'' (3rd edition) gives ''ūbūṭīlūn''〕 the name given by Avicenna to this or a similar genus.〔: written ''aubūtīlūn'' in both ''Britannica'' and the ''OED''.〕 ==Description== Plants of this genus include herbs, shrubs, and trees.〔 They range in height from about 0.5 to 3 meters (1.5 to 10 feet). The herbage is generally hairy to woolly or bristly.〔(''Abutilon''. ) The Jepson eFlora 2013.〕 The leaf blades are usually entire, but the occasional species has lobed leaves. They are palmately veined and have wavy or serrated edges. Flowers are solitary, paired, or borne in small inflorescences in the leaf axils or toward the branch tips. The calyx is bell-shaped with five lobes. The corolla is usually bell-shaped to wheel-shaped, with five petals joined at the bases. The flowers of wild species are most often yellow or orange,〔 but can be red or pinkish, sometimes with a darker center. The stamens are fused into a tube lined at the mouth with anthers. Inside the tube is the branching style with head-like stigmas. The fruit is a rounded or hemispherical schizocarp with up to 20 segments, each containing a few seeds.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abutilon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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