Hampea trilobata Standl.
Descripción
Dioecious shrubs or trees 2-7 (-10) m tall, the young stems densely brown- tomentose, the bark grayish. Leaf blades mostly 7-13 cm long, usually truncate (sometimes weakly cordate or cuneate), ovate, elliptic, rotund or obtriangular, often weakly 3-lobulate, acute to acuminate, discolorous, glabrate above, puberulent beneath, with a single foliar nectary at base of midrib beneath; petioles 1/2-3/4 the length of the blades. Flowers 2-7 in the leaf axils; pedicels 1.5-4 cm long, tomentose, slender; involucellar nectaries absent; involucellar bractlets 3, 1-4 mm long, linear, caducous before anthesis; calyx 4-7 mm long, densely tan-puberulent, torn in flower and reflexed in fruit; petals 1-1.5 cm long; filaments of staminate flowers 3-5 mm long. Capsules 1.5 cm long, globose to ovoid (often trigonally so), 3-loculed, woody, externally gray-green-puberulent, internally glabrous except for sparse hairs along suture of dehiscence; seeds 4-5 mm long, 3-4 per locule, brown- black. Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva baja, Selva altaA
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC