Abutilon bastardioides Baker f. ex Rose
Description
Shrubs 2-3 m tall (rarely small trees to 6 m tall, the trunk 7-8 cm in diameter), with minute stellate puberulence. Leaf blades mostly 6-10 cm long, cordate to broadly ovate, about as wide as long, serrate (sometimes obscurely so), short- acuminate, slightly discolorous; petioles 1/2-1 times as long as the blades; stipules 6~ 8 mm long, linear, deciduous. Flowers solitary or paired in the leaf axils, or in short axillary racemes; pedicels 3.5-4.5 cm long, slender, articulated near the middle, minutely puberulent and with long (1-1.5 mm) simple hairs intermingled, the buds nodding; calyx 12-15 mm long, glandular-puberulent, prominently 5-ribbed at the base, ca. half-divided, the lobes acuminate; corolla without a dark center, the petals 1.5-2 cm long, yellow, reflexed; staminal column 8~10 mm long, pallid, stellate- pubescent basally, glabrous distally; the filaments pallid, 4-6 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 5, reddish, with dark red stigmas. Fruits ca. 6 mm long, minutely puberulent; mericarps 5, usually 2-seeded, muticous. (Mature fruits and seeds un- known.) Chromosome number: 2n = 28.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC