Pavonia oxyphylla (DC.) Fryxell var. oxyphylla
Descripción
Shrubs 1-2 m tall, the stems minutely glandular-puberulent. Leaf blades mostly 6-15 cm long (smaller upward), 1.5-2 times as long as wide, ovate, cordate, coarsely serrate, acuminate, sparsely stellate-pubescent, the hairs often simple above, coarsely stellate beneath (the largest hairs 3-4-armed), nearly concolorous; petioles (of midstem leaves) usually more than half the length of the blades; stipules 4-6 mm long, subulate, persistent, often recurved. Flowers principally in a terminal panicle with reduced leaves; pedicels 1.5-8.5 cm long, slender, viscid-puberulent; involucellar bracts 5, 10-11 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, linear, distinct, minutely pubescent; calyx 5-8 mm long, ca. half-divided, minutely pubescent, the lobes prominently 3-nerved, the intercostal areas whitish; corolla rotate, the petals 1.5-2 cm long, white with a yellowish spot on claw, the spot sometimes edged with red or purple, stellate-pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, minutely ciliate on claw; staminal column 1.5 cm long, dark purple, glabrous, with distinctive red (drying purple) appendages at base, the appendages 2-4 mm wide, broadly spatulate, distally dentate or erose, the column declined, the filaments 1-3 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles exceeding the androecium, the stigmas villous. Fruits 7-8 mm in diameter, oblate, enclosed by the calyces; mericarps unornamented, subequal to column, puberulent; seeds glabrous. Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Matorral de otro tipo, Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Bibliografía
C. SEMARNAT: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, Protección ambiental-Especies nativas de México de flora y fauna silvestres-Categorías de riesgo y especificaciones para su inclusión, exclusión o cambio-Lista de especies en riesgo, publicada el 30 de diciembre de 2010. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-12-10 09:14]