Abutilon terminale(Cav.) A.St.-Hil.

WFO wfo-0000512322 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 4 separate observations

Abutilon terminale, photographed by aacocucci
fig. a aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-17 / obs. 110631367
Abutilon terminale, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. b Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107000494
Abutilon terminale, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. c Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107000553
Abutilon terminale, photographed by Facundo Chieffo
fig. d Facundo Chieffo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121845624

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Abutilon terminale is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Brazil South, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBrazil SouthUruguay
Native distribution of Abutilon terminale, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Brazil South BZS
Uruguay URU

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 3 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 terminale var. islae-malae Arechav.
  • Abutilon terminale var. typica Arechav.
  • Sida terminalis Cav.

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.

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