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Abutilon viscosum (L.) Dorr

Cordón de seda, bastardia, malva bruja, Viscid mallow, yellow ground mallow

Subshrub, 3-10 dm tall, with simple hairs and blades thin, green or yellowish green. The flowers are axillary and the petals are pale to deep yellow or yellow-orange. The fruit is depressed-globose and the seeds are brownish, broad, and silky.

At elevations up to 310 m in rather bushy, mostly open areas (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Malvales

Family
Malvaceae

Genus
Abutilon

Species
viscosum

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Bastardia viscosa (L.) Kunth (POWO, 2022)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America (POWO, 2023).

References

  • Christophersen, E. (1932) A Collection of Plants from the Galápagos Islands. Nyt Mag. Naturvidenskaberne 70: 67-95.
  • Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
  • Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Abutilon viscosum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20287. Accessed 31 October 2026.