Malvaviscus urticifolius (C. Presl) Fryxell
Descripción
Shrubs 2 m tall, the stems coarsely pubescent, the hairs 1-2 mm long, whitish, more or less curly. Leaf blades 6-8 cm long, 2-3 cm wide (or if lobed to 6 cm wide), mostly narrowly lanceolate (rarely wider and trilobulate), truncate, coarsely crenate or serrate, acute, palmately 5-nerved, glabrate above, with a few scattered stellate hairs beneath (mostly 4-armed, 1 mm long) or with simple hairs on main veins; petioles mostly 1/4 the length of the blades; with pubescence like stem; stipules ca. 3 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or aggregated apically; pedicels 1.5-3 cm long, exceeding the subtending petioles; involucellar bracts ca. 8-9, 10-12 (-14) mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, connate at very base but essentially distinct, lanceolate (or slightly spatulate), 1-nerved, ciliate; calyx 12-15 mm long, yellowish, prominently ciliate on margins and veins (hairs 1.5-2 mm); petals 3.5-5 cm long, white, sparsely pubescent (subglabrous); staminal column exserted, slender, twisted, pallid, glabrous, the filaments 1-2 mm long, the anthers few (ca. 15), pallid (?); styles exceeding the androecium, free for distal 3-4 mm, pallid, somewhat pubescent, divergent, the stigmas villous, pallid. “The fruit is very rare” (Hinton 7912); “fruiting specimens very difficult to find” (Hinton 5057). Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC