Abutilon guineense(Schumach.) Baker f. & Exell

WFO wfo-0000511951 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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 guineense, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-06-08 / obs. 138993332
Abutilon guineense, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. b Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21750334
Abutilon guineense, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178189735
Abutilon guineense, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 138993376
Abutilon guineense, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63411698
Abutilon guineense, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178189736
Abutilon guineense, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. g Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16777728
Abutilon guineense, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63411688

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Abutilon guineense is native: Angola, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, China South-Central AngolaBurkinaCameroonDR CongoEswatiniGhanaGulf of Guinea Is.KenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZimbabweChina South-Central Cape Verde
Native distribution of Abutilon guineense, 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
Angola ANG AFRICA
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Cape Verde CVI
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
Ghana GHA
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 agnesae Borzì
  • Abutilon asperifolium Ulbr.
  • Abutilon bidentatum var. forrestii (Hu) Abedin
  • Abutilon blepharocarpum Mattei
  • Abutilon densevillosum Mattei
  • Abutilon forrestii S.Y.Hu
  • Abutilon indicum subsp. guineense (Schumach.) Borss.Waalk.
  • Abutilon indicum var. forrestii (S.Y.Hu) K.M.Feng
  • Abutilon indicum var. guineense (Schumach.) K.M.Feng
  • Abutilon taiwanense S.Y.Hu
  • Sida guineensis Schumach.

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.