Also known as Indian mallow
Abutilon is a large genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. General common names include Indian mallow and velvetleaf; ornamental varieties may be known as room maple, parlor maple, or flowering maple. The genus name is an 18th-century Neo-Latin word that came from the Arabic ’abū-ṭīlūn, the name given by Avicenna to this or a similar genus.
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Scientists mapped the chloroplast genomes of 19 Abutilon species, a group of flowering shrubs known as Chinese lanterns or Indian mallow, to sort out a family tree that's been notoriously hard to untangle. The DNA evidence splits Abutilon into two major branches: one found only in Australia's dry regions and another spread across tropics worldwide.
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