Bakeridesia amoena Fryxell
Descripción
Small trees 5-7 m tall, the stems densely and minutely puberulent, the hairs ferruginous, stellate (sometimes stipitate), 0.5 mm or less. Leaf blades ovate or slightly 5-angular, to 18 X 16 cm, basally cordate with an open sinus, essentially entire, apically short-acuminate, palmately 9-nerved, somewhat discolorous, densely puberulent on both surfaces, the principal veins raised beneath; petioles to 8 cm (ca. 1/2 length of blade), with pubescence like that of stem; stipules broadly falcate, 4-8 X 4-5 mm, several-nerved, pubescent, deciduous. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, the pedicels to 2.5 cm (in flower, elongating in fruit?), densely ferruginous-pubescent, the stellate hairs 0.5-1 mm long; calyx 1.5 cm, densely brown-pubescent, 5- lobed, the lobes strongly 3-nerved; petals yellow (drying almost white) without red center, 3-3.5 cm, rotate (i.e., not reflexed), pubescent internally on claw; staminal column ca. 5 mm, pubescent, the filaments numerous, 5-6 mm, the pollen yellowish, the androecium as a whole subglobose, ca. 1/2 the length of the petals; styles ca. 16, more or less exceeding the androecium, the stigmas abruptly capitate. Mature fruits un- known, very young fruits densely pubescent.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
850 – 1500 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de pino-encino, Bosque de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
En peligro (EN)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Bibliografía
A. Fryxell & Guadarr. 2001: New Mexican species of Byttneria (Sterculiaceae), Bakeridesia (Malvaceae), and Triumfetta (Tiliaceae). – Brittonia 53(1): 59-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02805397