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
Bibliografía
A. Standley, P. C. & Steyermark, J. A. 1949: Sterculiaceae. – Vol. 24, Part VI. Fieldiana, Bot. Flora of Guatemala
C. SEMARNAT 2019: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010: 101 pp. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-05-04 06:16]