Abutilon albidum

Description. Erect, short-lived perennial herb or shrub up to 60 (- 100) cm tall. Branches densely covered by minute stellate hairs, mixed with numerous long, simple spreading hairs (especially, but not exclusively on new growth) and sparser multicellular hairs. Leaves (median cauline) up to 13 cm long and 7 cm wide, broadly ovate to almost rotund, deeply cordate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, irregularly crenate-toothed to double-toothed, very shortly stellate-pubescent on both sides; petiole up to 6 cm long, slightly shorter than blade, very densely stellate hairy mixed with rather numerous short, glandular, capitate hairs and scattered weak, simple, spreading hairs; longest stipules to 9 mm long (mostly shorter), filiform. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary, but sometimes merging to more or less distinct panicles, pedicel 2 - 4 cm long, elongating in fruit up to 1 - 8 cm, articulate and geniculate ca. 5 mm below the apex. Calyx 5 - lobed for ca. 1 / 2 its length, sepals up to 8 mm long, densely long-pubescent on both sides, slightly accrescent, erect, ultimately reflexed; lobes lanceolate-acuminate. Corolla pale yellow to yellow, ca. 1.5 cm across; petals 7 - 10 mm long, 4 - 5 mm wide, obovate. Staminal column 2 - 3 mm long, stellate-pubescent. Fruit 8 - 10 mm long, + / - 13 mm across; mericarps 10 - 15, black and rather star-like spreading at maturity, up to 9 mm long, 5 mm wide, the outer apical (dorsal) angle acute-triangular, without protuberances, stellate-pubescent towards the margin. Seeds 2 (- 3), brown, initially with scattered stellate hairs, pilose near margins, ca. 2 mm across.