Ayenia palmeri S. Watson
Descripción
slender shrub 1-3 meters tall with few branches, the older branches blackish ferruginous, the young ones stellate-pilose with short hairs; leaves on mostly short petioles, thin, rounded-ovate or broadly ovate, mostly 5-12 cm. long and 3-8 cm. wide, abruptly acute or acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the base, sparsely and minutely stellate-pubescent above, thinly or densely stellate-pilose beneath, rather coarsely crenate-dentate, the upper leaves smaller and narrower and on very short petioles or almost sessile; cymes sessile, few-flowered, the pedicels very slender, unequal, sometimes 1 cm. long; flower buds globose-ovoid, usually obtuse, sometimes acutish; sepals spreading, purple-brown within and glabrous, ovate-oblong, acute; capsule 7-12 mm. broad, subglobose, minutely stellate-tomentulose, short-muricate.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
150 – 1800 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Matorral de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC