Gossypium schwendimanii Fryxell & Koch
Descripción
Tree to 4 m tall, the branch tips drooping, the bark grayish. Leaf blades spirally disposed, mostly 4-8 cm long, about as wide as long, broadly ovate, deeply cordate to truncate, acuminate, essentially glabrous, palmately 5-7-nerved, with a small nectary near base of midrib beneath; petioles 1-3 cm long, very sparsely pubescent to glabrate; stipules minute and early caducous. Flowers solitary (rarely paired) in the leaf axils, mostly appearing after the leaves fall; pedicels 4-7 mm long, stout (1- 1.4 mm diameter), glabrous, sometimes suffused with pink, surmounted by 3 sunken involucellar nectaries; involucellar bracts 1-2 mm long, erect, inserted above the nectaries, triangular, sometimes obscurely 2-3-toothed, persistent; calyx 5-7 mm long, subtruncate and minutely 5-toothed, glabrous except ciliate on margin; corolla narrowly funnelform, yellowish suffused with lavender, dark purple on lower half within, the petals 3.5-4 cm long, abaxially stellate-pubescent where exposed in bud, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 2.5-3 cm long, glabrous, pallid, lacking gossypol glands, the filaments ca. 3 mm long, the anthers purple; style exceeding the androecium, black-gland-dotted. Capsules 2-2.5 cm long, narrowly ovoid, 3-celled, dehiscent but not flaring widely, verruculate, glabrous; seeds 10-12 mm long, narrowly turbinate, densely hairy, the hairs grayish. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
En peligro (EN)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
En peligro de extinción (P)C