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.
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
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC