Pronunciation: qǐng.

Handwriting style: 艹 駕 駕 Modeling;

Handwriting style: 艹 冂口;

笔顺编号: 12225251;

笔顺读写: horizontal vertical vertical fold vertical fold horizontal.

Origin: Abutilon [qǐng má], a tall annual herb of the genus Abutilon, with long straight stems, cordate leaves, velvety hairs, and yellow flowers; the stem bark produces a long strong fiber that can be used to make twine and sacks, and is therefore sometimes cultivated; native to India, but widely naturalized as an escaped plant in tropical and temperate places.

Expanded Information:

Indian hemp, annual subspecies, sometimes cultivated. p>Abutilon, annual subshrubby herb, up to 1-2 m tall. Stem branches pilose. Leaves alternate; petiole 3-12cm long, stellate pilose; stipules caducous; leaf blade rounded-cordate, 5-10cm long, apex long acuminate, base cordate, both surfaces stellate pilose, margin crenulate.

Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedicel 1-3cm long, pilose, articulate near tip; calyx cup-shaped, densely velutinous, lobes 5, ovate, ca. 6mm; flowers yellow, petals obovate, ca. 1cm; staminal column smooth and glabrous; carpels 15-20, 1-1.5cm long, apex truncate, with extended, hairy long awns 2, arranged in whorls, densely softly hairy.

Capsules hemispherical, ca. 2cm in diameter, ca. 1.2cm long, mericarp 15-20, hirsute, apical long awn 2. Seeds reniform, brown, stellate pilose.

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