Abutilon halophilum is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is a small understory shrub with yellow or cream-white flowers and hairy oval-shaped leaves and grows in New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Abutilon halophilum is a small, understory shrub to high and covered with soft, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are oval-circular shaped, long, apex rounded or notched and the margins widely toothed except near the base. The calyx about long, lobes broadly lance-shaped and the corolla long. Flowering occurs throughout the year and the fruit is in diameter, long, spreading, blunt and the mericarp with about 10 segments.[1] [2]
Abutilon halophilum was first formally described by Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde.[3] [4] The specific epithet (halophilum) means "salt loving".[5]
This species grows on rocky desert soil and heavy clay, sometimes near floodplains and mostly amongst salt bush in New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.[1]