Malva pacifica M.F. Ray

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Malva pacifica M.F. Ray

Descripción

Shrubs [described by Greene (1890) as having drooping branches], generally glabrate. Leaf blades mostly 5-10 cm long, palmately 5-7-lobed, coarsely crenate, the lobes acute to obtuse, glabrate; petioles equaling or exceeding the blades. Flowers usually solitary in the leaf axils, pedicels 1-2 cm long, slender; involucellar bracts shorter than the calyx, more or less connate basally, the lobes triangular; calyx 1.5 cm long in flower to 2 cm long in fruit, sparsely pubescent to glabrate, tubular in flower; corolla rotate, the petals 3-3.5 cm long, whitish with purple veins and tips, ultimately reflexed, glabrous except pubescent on margins of claws; staminal column 1.5-2 cm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments 2-3 mm long, the anthers yellowish; styles ca. 8, purplish. Fruits ca. 1 cm in diameter, glabrous; mericarps ca. 8, smooth, the angle between the lateral and dorsal walls prominently ridged; seeds unknown. Chromosome number unknown.A,1
1. As Lavatera venosa.

Forma de crecimiento

Arbusto

Forma de vida

Terrestre

Nutrición

Autotrófica

Distribución

México (país) EndémicoA

Ecología y Hábitat

Reported from the San Benito Islands, San Jerénimo Island, and Isla Asuncién (Isla San Roque) as well as from “a rock at the mouth of San Bartolomé Bay” (=Bahia Tortuga) (Beauchamp 1972). The species is described by Palmer (in Vasey & Rose 1890, p. 21) as “the plant that leads in numbers all others on [San Benito] island.” It flowers from December to April and perhaps also at other seasons.A

Tipo de vegetación

No especificado

Categoría IUCN

No incluidaB

Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010

No incluidaC

Estatus del taxón

(A) Como definida actualmente, probablemente una entidad natural (monofilética)

Bibliografía

A. Fryxell, P. A. 1988: Malvaceae of Mexico. – Syst. Bot. Monogr. 25: 1-522
B. IUCN 2022: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Versión 2022-2
C. SEMARNAT 2019: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010: 101 pp. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-05-04 06:16]