Recorded once in Victoria from Coode Island near the mouth of the Yarra River in 1912. However, plants have not persisted at this site. Abutilon indicum is a shrub to 2.5 m tall with relatively large yellow flowers and heart-shaped leaves. Superficially resembles A. theophrasti, but readily distinguished from that species by the shortly-awned mericarps, and stems with short, densely-packed stellate hairs that give stems a creamy colour.
