Allowissadula holosericea (Chisos Mountain false Indianmallow)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allowissadula holosericea, photographed by Reid Hardin — fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-04 / obs. 171392531

Allowissadula holosericea, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋） — fig. c Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169545028

Allowissadula holosericea, photographed by Philip Vanbergen — fig. f Philip Vanbergen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 135212122

Allowissadula holosericea, photographed by Gary Rogers — fig. h Gary Rogers, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126094066

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Allowissadula holosericea, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Mexico Northeast	MXE	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Mexico Southeast	MXT
New Mexico	NWM
Texas	TEX

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.

Flowering 106 in flower of 195 examined

17%

27%

50%

45%

57%

60%

70%

68%

65%

61%

Proportion of examined Allowissadula holosericea in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Feb	0	3	too few examined
Mar	1	6	17%	3% to 56%
Apr	4	15	27%	11% to 52%
May	10	20	50%	30% to 70%
Jun	9	20	45%	26% to 66%
Jul	8	14	57%	33% to 79%
Aug	6	10	60%	31% to 83%
Sep	19	27	70%	52% to 84%
Oct	21	31	68%	50% to 81%
Nov	17	26	65%	46% to 81%
Dec	11	18	61%	39% to 80%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Allowissadula holosericea observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 106 of 195 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 5 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 holosericeum Scheele
Abutilon marshii Standl.
Abutilon velutinum A.Gray
Wissadula holosericea (Scheele) Garcke
Wissadula insignis R.E.Fr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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