Hibiscus biseptus S. Watson
Descripción
Shrubs to 1 m tall, the stems often long-setose or with stellate-scabridulous hairs and also with minute recurved hairs in lines decurrent from the stipules. Leaf blades mostly 4-8 cm long, usually palmately 3-5-lobed (except juvenile leaves), about as wide as long, dentate, strigose above, stellate-pubescent beneath; petioles mostly 2-6 cm long; stipules 4-14 mm long, subulate setose, persistent. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, pedicels 4-15 cm long, exceeding the subtending leaves; bracts of the involucel 9-11, subequal to the calyx, distinct, linear, setose; calyx 23~33 mm long, deeply 5-parted, setose, neither accrescent nor inflated; petals 2.5-5.5 cm long, yellow with a purplish spot at base; staminal column ca. 1 cm long, the filaments 2 mm long, column and filaments purplish, glabrous; styles pallid, the stigmas 0.7-0.9 mm in diameter, purplish. Capsules 9-14 mm long, ovoid, glabrous; seeds 2.5-3 mm long, densely sericeous, the hairs 3-4 mm long. Chromosome number: 2n = 22.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
<1500 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Dry matorral Matorral de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC