Abutilon angulatum(Guill. & Perr.) Mast.

WFO wfo-0000511722 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Alan Manson
fig. a Alan Manson, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-02 / obs. 130653220
Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. b Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126735131
Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63589824
Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63593980
Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 138609686
Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. f Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192118846
Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. g Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126702958
Abutilon angulatum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 138609644

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Abutilon angulatum is native: Aldabra, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBotswanaBurundiCameroonChadDR CongoEritreaEthiopiaGambiaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMaliMauritaniaMozambiqueNamibiaNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSenegalSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabwe Aldabra
Native distribution of Abutilon angulatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Aldabra ALD AFRICA
Angola ANG
Botswana BOT
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Gambia GAM
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Senegal SEN
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Abutilon eetveldeanum De Wild. & T.Durand
  • Abutilon holstii K.Schum. ex Engl.
  • Abutilon indicum var. macrophyllum (Hilsenb. & Bojer ex Baill.) Baker f.
  • Abutilon intermedium Hochst. ex Schweinf.
  • Abutilon intermedium var. figarianum Webb ex Baker f.
  • Abutilon intermedium var. macrophyllum (Hils. & Bojer ex Baill.) Baker f.
  • Abutilon pseudangulatum Hochr.
  • Bastardia angulata Guill. & Perr.
  • Sida acutangula Steud.
  • Sida angulosa Bojer
  • Sida macrophylla Hilsenb. & Bojer ex Baill.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.