Hibiscus zygomorphus Fryxell & S.D. Koch
Descripción
Shrubs to 1 m tall, the stems sparsely hispidulous. Leaf blades mostly 4-8 cm long, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, coarsely crenate-serrate, acute, with appressed simple hairs above and 3-4-armed stellate hairs beneath; petioles 2-10 mm long; stipules 3-5 mm long, erect, persistent. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long, hispidulous; involucel 7-8 mm long, the bractlets 8, narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved; calyx 5-7 mm long, ca. half-divided, neither accrescent nor inflated, basally glabrous, the lobes hispid; corolla rotate, the petals 1.5 cm long, red, glabrous throughout (including claw); staminal column subequal to petals, glabrous, pallid or suffused with red, markedly curved downward at anthesis (the flowers thus zygomorphic), the filaments 1-2 mm long; styles reddish, glabrous, the stigmas 0.5 mm in diameter, dark red. Capsules slightly exceeding the calyces, globose, glabrous; seeds unknown. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
280 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC