Pavonia malacophylla (Link & Otto) Garcke
Descripción
Shrubs or small trees 2-5 m tall, the stems densely stellate-pubescent and with glandular hairs. Leaf blades mostly 9-21 cm long, ovate to weakly angulate, cordate, finely serrulate, acute, densely pubescent above and beneath, somewhat discolorous; petioles subequal to the blades on lower leaves, 1/3-1/2 the length of the blades above; stipules usually 4-7 mm long and subulate, but sometimes to ca. 2 cm long and lanceolate. Flowers aggregated into dense terminal inflorescences; pedicels of variable length, up to 3 cm long, densely pubescent; involucellar bracts 15 or more, 12-18 mm long, valvate in bud, externally glandular-pubescent, internally long-hirsute, the hairs copious, whitish; calyx 2-3 mm long, wholly concealed by involucel; petals ca. 3 cm long, rose or red, abaxially stellate-pubescent, adaxially glabrous (including margins of claw), erect, forming a tubular corolla; staminal column more or less exserted, glabrous, the filaments 4-10 mm long; styles exserted. Mericarps ca. twice the height of the column. Chromosome number unknown.A,1
1. As Lopimia malacophylla
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoB
Elevación
0 – 400(– 1100) mB
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de otro tipoB
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)C
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD