Allowissadula chiangii M.C. Johnst.
Description
Subshrubs up to 1 m tall, densely and softly pubescent with both stellate and some glandular hairs, the hairs whitish. Leaf blades mostly 4-8 cm long, broadly ovate (sometimes shallowly 3-lobed), cordate, crenate-dentate, acute, softly pubes- cent, discolorous; petioles equaling or exceeding the blades below (shorter up- ward); stipules 4-5 mm long, filiform. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or aggregated into narrow, leafy panicles; pedicels 0.5-2.5 cm long, slender; calyx 8~10 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent (glandular hairs sometimes present), ca. half- divided, the lobes apiculate, with a prominent midvein; petals 12-14 mm long, white to yellowish; staminal column 6 mm long, the filaments 2-4 mm long, styles exceeding the androecium. Fruits 7.5 mm long, white-stellate-pubescent; mericarps with apical spine 1.5 mm long, with broad endoglossum completely dividing mericarp into two cells; seeds ca. 2.5 mm long, blackish. Chromosome number unknown.
Distribution
México (país) EndémicoA
Habitat & Ecology
Occurs in relatively dry habitats, but is as yet poorly known.A
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC