Abroma
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{For|the insect genus|Abroma (cicada)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Abroma augustum Abroma wyniosła 2023-07-30 04.jpg
| image_caption = Abroma augustum
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Abroma
| authority = Jacq.
| type_species = Abroma augustum
| type_species_authority = (L.) L. f.
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
Abroma is a genus in the family Malvaceae, with one or two species from Asia and Australia. Ambroma is an orthographic variant.
Taxonomy
The genus was described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1776{{citation |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10251#page/7/mode/1up |title=Hortus botanicus vindobonensis |chapter=Abroma fastuosum |volume=3 |pages=3–4 |year=1776}} with a single species Abroma fastuosum, which was illustrated and described.{{citation |chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10251#page/57/mode/1up |title=Hortus botanicus vindobonensis |chapter=Tab 1 |volume=3 |year=1776}} However, because Jacquin was renaming Theobroma augusta L., according to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, he was required to use the name Abroma augustum, and A. fastuosum is an illegitimate name.{{citation |url=http://botany.si.edu/ing/ |title=Index Nominum Genericorum |accessdate=30 September 2016}} The correct name of the type species, A. augustum (L.) L. f., was made in 1782 by Carl Linnaeus the Younger.
Species
- Abroma augustum (L.) L.f.{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=ABROMA|title=Abroma |accessdate=2009-02-07 |work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}} – devil's cotton, bark a source of jute-like fibre
- Abroma molle DC.{{citation |url=https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/770668 |title=National Species List/Australian Plant Census |accessdate=30 September 2016}}