- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
- ›Mallow and Hibiscus Family
- ›Malvoideae
- ›Malveae
- ›Abutilon
Dwarf lantern-flower
Abutilon fraseri
Abutilon fraseri commonly known as dwarf lantern-flower, is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a small shrub with yellow flowers.
From the article Abutilon fraseri on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Abutilon fraseri is a small upright undershrub to 40 cm (16 in) high and covered with soft, short, star-shaped hairs and long simple hairs. The leaves are more or less circular to oval-shaped, 1.5–5 cm (0.59–1.97 in) long, heart-shaped at the base, margins roughly toothed, scalloped, rounded or almost pointed at the apex . The calyx about 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long, corolla yellow, 15 mm (0.59 in) long, lobes broadly lance-shaped and longer than the floral tube. Flowering occurs mostly in spring and summer and the usually 10 fruit are 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) in diameter and 7 mm (0.28 in) long, green and containing 2 seeds.
Range & habitat
Dwarf lantern-flower grows in rocky situations in Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Abutilon fraseri in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 323732.