Hibiscus clypeatus L.
Descripción
Shrubs 3-6 m tall, the entire plant densely and softly stellate-tomentose. Leaf blades mostly 10-18 cm long, slightly wider, broadly ovate or ovate-angulate to weakly 3-lobed, deeply cordate, obscurely denticulate, acuminate; pedicels 1/2-1 times the length of the blades; stipules 3-15 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 3-10 cm long, stout (3-4 mm in diameter); involucellar bracts 8-10, 16-22 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, linear-lanceolate; calyx ca. 4 cm long at anthesis, accrescent to 4-5 cm long in fruit and more or less inflated, ca. half divided, the lobes cordate-ovate, 3~5-nerved; petals 4-5 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, greenish yellow to reddish brown, fleshy, densely tomentose abaxially, with minute peglike hairs adaxially, asymmetrically disposed, the entire flower zygomorphic, staminal column 2.5-3 cm long, declined, essentially glabrous, the filaments 6-7 mm long, minutely pubescent, secund and ascending; styles glabrous, the stigmas 1.3 mm diameter, dark-colored. Capsules 3-4 cm long, ovoid, enclosed in calyx, externally hispid (hairs 2-3 mm long) and with a dense understory of yellowish farinose pubescence, internally pilose (hairs 3-5 mm long); seeds 3.5-4 mm long, subglobose, glabrous. Chromosome number: 2n = 20.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Ecología y Hábitat
Occurs on limestone soils in open habitats.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC