Heliocarpus mexicanus (Turcz.) Sprague
Descripción
A small to large tree, often 15 meters high, with pale smooth bark, the young branchlets stellate-pubescent or glabrate, red-glandular; leaves on long slender petioles, ovate to rounded-ovate, often large, acuminate or long-acuminate, usually more or less cordate at the base, crenate, green above and appearing glabrous, paler beneath, varying from almost glabrous to rather densely and softly stellate-pubescent; panicles small or large, often very leafy; sepals cucullate, appendaged at the apex, glabrate; fruit sessile, ellipsoid or subglobose, the body 5 mm. long, sparsely or densely stellate-pilose on the faces, becoming glabrate and often coarsely rugose in age, reddish-glandular.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoB
Elevación
<2100 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva baja, Selva medianaA
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)C
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD