Abutilon palmeri A. Gray
Descripción
Shrubs to 1.5 (-2) m tall, the stems sometimes dark-pigmented, more or less stellate-pubescent and sometimes also with simple hairs 1-2 mm long. Leaf blades mostly 4-8 cm long, often as wide as long or nearly so, broadly ovate, sometimes weakly 3-lobed, deeply cordate, coarsely to finely dentate, acuminate, softly tomentose above and beneath, nearly concolorous; petioles half the length of the blades to exceeding the blades, commonly subequal; stipules 69 mm long, filiform. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or forming terminal more or less leafless panicles; pedicels 2-3.5 (-6) cm long; calyx 9-15 mm long in flower to 20 mm long in fruit, densely hirsute, ca. half-divided, the lobes cordate and overlapping; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 2-2.5 cm long, yellow-orange, pubescent on margins of claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 4 mm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments 2-3 mm long, the anthers yellow, ca. 50; styles ca. 10, slender, glabrous, the stigmas maroon. Fruits 10-12 mm long, 15-16 mm in diameter, densely hirsute; mericarps ca. 10, 3-seeded, apically acute or apiculate; seeds ca. 3 mm long, brownish, minutely pubescent. Chromosome number unknown. A
Elevación
0 – 1000 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Occurs in open, arid habitats.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC