Anoda leonensis Fryxell
Description
Erect herbs 1-2 m tall with spreading branches, the stems minutely stellate- pubescent. Leaf blades mostly 4-9 cm long, ovate-cordate below to hastately 3- lobed and narrower above, truncate to cordate, coarsely crenate, acute, sparsely stellate-pubescent to glabrate above and beneath; petioles 1/2- 1 times as long as the blades. Inflorescence an open terminal raceme or panicle; pedicels 2-6.5 cm long, slender; calyx 5-6 (-8) mm long, minutely yellowish pubescent; corolla without a dark center, the petals 8-12 (-20) mm long, yellow to yellow-orange, prominently ciliate on claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 2-3 (-5) mm long, pallid, with 5 8-9 mm in vertical rows of setae, the filaments 1-2 (-4).mm long; styles 12-16. Fruits 8-9 mm diameter, oblate, densely hirsute; mericarps 12-16, dorsally rounded (crested but scarcely spurred), the midvein (“crest”) darkly pigmented in immature fruit, the lateral walls evanescent; seeds 2.5 mm long, enclosed in a persistent reticulate endocarp. Chromosome number: 2n = 30. A
Distribution
México (país) EndémicoA
Altitude
600 - 1200 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva baja, Matorral de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC