Anoda thurberi A. Gray
Description
Erect herbs ca. 1 m tall, the stems, petioles, and pedicels minutely stellate- and glandular-pubescent. Leaf blades 5-8 cm long (often smaller), ovate-cordate to hastately 3-lobed to narrowly triangular, sometimes with a purplish blotch along midvein and a purplish margin, minutely pubescent above and beneath, the hairs usually stellate; petioles 1/2-1 times as long as the blades. Inflorescence commonly an open terminal raceme or panicle borne more or less above the leaves; pedicels 1-3 cm long, slender; calyx 3.5-6 mm long in flower, accrescent to 6-8 mm long in fruit, stellate-pubescent, the lobes somewhat inrolled in fruit; corolla with a purplish center, the petals 4-7 mm long, bluish lavender; staminal column 1.5-2 (-4) mm long, stellate-pubescent, pallid or lavender, the filaments less than 1 mm long, the anthers few, lavender; styles 6-8, the stigmas barely exceeding the androecium, minutely clavate. Fruits 6-8 mm in diameter, oblate, minutely stellate- and glandular-pubescent; mericarps 68, dorsally spurred (the spur obscure or up to 1 mm long), the lateral walls evanescent; seeds 2-2.5 mm long, glabrous, endocarp absent or fragile and incomplete at best. Chromosome numbers: 2n = 26, 28.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC