Pavonia schiedeana Steud.
Descripción
Subshrubs or shrubs up to 2 m tall, minutely stellate-pubescent. Leaf blades mostly 6-15 cm long, elliptic, oblong, or obovate (widest above the middle), truncate, crenate-dentate (the margin eciliate), acute, slightly discolorous, sparsely and minutely stellate-pubescent above and beneath; petioles 1/4 the length of the blades or less, the leaves rarely subsessile; stipules 5-9 mm long, subulate. Peduncles axillary, sometimes exceeding the subtending leaves, bearing a dense headlike inflorescence that is actually a condensed raceme; individual pedicels up to 12 mm long but usually much shorter; involucellar bractlets ca. 8, 4-6 mm long, basally gamophyllous; calyx 4-5 mm long; petals 6-9 mm long, pink; androecium about equaling the petals. Fruits 6-8 mm in diameter; mericarps each with 3 retrorsely barbed spines 2.5-5 mm long, the central one the longest; seeds 4.5 mm long, glabrous. Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
0 – 1500 mA
Tipo de vegetación
secondary vegetation Bosque de pino-encino, Selva altaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Bibliografía
C. SEMARNAT 2019: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010: 101 pp. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-05-04 06:16]