Abutilon coahuilae Kearney
Description
Shrubs to 1 m tall, the stems densely and minutely tomentulose, the hairs stellate, yellowish. Leaf blades mostly 4-6 cm long, ovate, truncate to cordate (the sinus open), sharply serrulate, acute, minutely tomentulose, nearly concolorous; petioles more than half the length of the blades; stipules 3-5 mm long, subulate. Flowers generally borne in an open terminal panicle; pedicels 10-15 (-20) mm long, articulated 2-3 mm below the flowers; calyx 5-6 mm long, puberulent, the lobes lanceolate, fully reflexed in fruit; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 10-15 mm long, yellow, pubescent on margins of claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column ca. 3 mm long, pallid, with a few stellate hairs apically, the filaments 1-2 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 5, glabrous. Fruits 8-10 mm long, 6-8 mm in diameter, more or less cylindrical, green maturing straw-colored, stellate- pubescent; mericarps 5, 3-seeded, apically long-acuminate; seeds 2 mm long, minutely pubescent. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribution
México (país) EndémicoA
Altitude
800 - 1400A
Habitat & Ecology
Occurs in open, arid habitars. It apparently flowers most of the year. A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC