Gossypium harknessii Brandegee
Descripción
Spreading shrubs up to 2.5 m tall and 3-4 m wide, the stems minutely puberulent to glabrate. Leaf blades 2-6 cm long, thick-textured, somewhat wider than long, deeply cordate, more or less 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse to acute, with a small foliar nectary near base of midrib beneath; petioles 1/2-1 times the length of the blades; stipules ca. 2 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long, equaling or shorter than the subtending petioles, articulated near the middle, with a caducous bract at articulation; involucellar bracts 9-18 mm long, 4-7 mm wide, lanceolate, entire, caducous at anthesis; calyx 6~8 mm long, truncate or obscurely 5-toothed; corolla yellow with a red center, the petals 2.5-4 cm long, ciliate-margined; staminal column 7-8 mm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments 2-3 mm long; style somewhat shorter than the petals. Capsules ca. 1.5 cm long, ovoid or subglobose, 3 (-4)-loculed, with prominent sunken glands, externally glabrous, internally pubescent along suture of dehiscence (the hairs 1-2 mm long), at maturity; seeds 8-10 mm long, grayish with tightly appressed hairs. Chromosome number: 2n = 26. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Desert shrubland No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
En peligro (EN)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
En peligro de extinción (P)C