Abutilon Gsertn.

Herbs or undershrubs more or less covered with down. Leaves angled or palmately-lobed. Inflorescence axillary or terminal. Bracteoles 0. Calyx of 5 valvate sepals, tubular below. Corolla of 5 petals, free above, connate below and adnate to the tube of the stamens. Staminal-tube divided at the apex into numerous filaments. Carpels 5-oo. Styles as many as the carpels. Ripe carpels separating from the axis, awned or not, 1-or more-seeded. Seeds reniform, upper ascending, lower descending.—

Distrib. About 70 species, all tropical or subtropical.

As a genus hardly separable from Sida, except in habit and in the larger flowers, which latter (in the Indian species) usually open in the evening, while in the Sidas they expand about noon.