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Lantern flower
Abutilon listeri
About
Abutilon listeri, commonly known as the lantern flower, is a tropical shrub in the Malvaceae or mallow family. It is endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the north-eastern Indian Ocean. Its specific epithet honours British zoologist and plant collector Joseph Jackson Lister, who visited the island on HMS Egeria in 1887.
- Family
- Malvaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Abutilon listeri
- Slug
- abutilon-listeri
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Abutilon
- Species
- listeri
- Wikidata QID
- Q4670696
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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