Abutilon hypoleucum A. Gray
Description
Shrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall, the stems sparsely to densely stellate-pubescent, with or without longer simple hairs. Leaf blades mostly 5-11 cm long, narrowly ovate (up to twice as long as wide), deeply cordate, crenate, acute or slightly acuminate, palmately 7-9-nerved, markedly discolorous (green above, beneath), sparsely scabridulous above, densely soft-tomentose beneath; petioles ½ -1 times white the leaf length of the blades; stipules 2-4 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the axils; pedicels 2-8 cm long, articulated 4~8 mm below the flowers, with pubescence similar to that of stem; calyx 1-1.5 cm long in flower, softly white- tomentose, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes broadly cordate (overlapping basally, the buds 5-angled), accrescent in fruit (up to 2.5 cm long, the lobes to 2 cm wide); corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 1.5-2.5 cm long, yellow or yellow-orange, ciliate on claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 5 mm tall, pallid, glabrous, 10-nerved, apically antheriferous, the filaments 34 mm long, ca. 50, 1.5 the ¢m anthers yellow; styles 13-15, pallid, exceeding the androecium. Fruits ca. long and wide (enclosed and exceeded by calyx), stellate-pubescent; mericarps 13-15, 3-seeded, apically acuminate; seeds 2.5 mm long, minutely scabridulous. Chromosome number: 2n = 14. A
Forma de crecimiento
ArbustoB
Distribution
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Altitude
0 - 1300 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Matorral de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD