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.

The leaves are circular to broadly ovate, either entire or weakly crenate, and about 90–160 mm long.

[2] The lantern flower is closely related to the sympatric A. auritum; both have a paniculate inflorescence and fewer than 15 mericarps.