Anoda reticulata S. Watson
Description
Erect herbs ca. 1 m tall, the stems and pedicels minutely scabridulous and with some glandular hairs. Leaf blades mostly 3-6 cm long, typically 3-lobed (rarely obscurely 5-lobed), the lobes narrowly linear (1-5 mm wide), progressively reduced upwards to simple filiform leaves and ultimately to stipuliform bracts in the inflorescence; midstem leaves remotely serrate to subentire, with purplish blotch along midrib, minutely stellate-pubescent above and beneath; petioles often equaling or exceeding the blades, shorter upwards. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or forming a terminal raceme; pedicels up to 8.5 cm long, slender; calyx ca. 5 mm long (not accrescent), densely pubescent, the lobes with a strong midrib; corolla without a dark center, the petals 5-6 mm long, bluish purple; staminal column ca. 2 mm long, glabrous or with a few hairs, pallid, the filaments purplish, the anthers yellowish; styles 10~11. Fruits 6-7 mm in diameter, oblate, stellate-pubescent; mericarps 10-11, the dorsum rounded (completely lacking spur or spine), the lateral walls evanescent, the seed completely enclosed in a persistent coarsely reticulate endocarp 2.5 mm long. Chromosome number unknown. A
Habitat & Ecology
Desert habitatsA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC