Malvaceae FAMILY

Abutilon pannosum

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Abutilon pannosum is a perennial sub-shrub that forms a woody base and can also produce persistent, woody stems[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. It grows about 2 metres tall[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant is sometimes gathered from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - drier areas of Mauritania & Senegal to Sudan and Somalia, through Arabia to India.

HabitatSilty and often saline flood-plains; river banks; wet depressions in Acacia bushland; cultivations; dunes; clayey-sandy soils, clayey and sandy soils in depressions between dunes at elevations of 30 - 900 metres[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].