Sterculia mexicana R. Br.
Descripción
A tall tree, about 30 meters high, the trunk a meter in diameter, buttressed at the base, the bark slightly rough at the base, smooth on the upper part of the trunk and on the branches; leaves on very long petioles; leaflets 7-9, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, mostly 13-35 cm. long, on rather long petiolules, short- acuminate or rounded and apiculate, penninerved, entire, sparsely stellate-pilose at first but soon glabrate; panicles about 30 cm. long, many-flowered, lax, the branches thinly stellate-pilose; calyx 2 cm. broad, tomentulose, pale pink, cream, or red, lobate almost to the base, the lobes lance-oblong, obtuse or acutish; ripe follicles dull orange outside, red within.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoB
Categoría IUCN
Vulnerable (VU)C
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD