Hampea breedlovei Fryxell

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Hampea breedlovei Fryxell

Descripción

Dioecious trees to 7 m tall, the herbage glabrate. Leaf blades mostly 15-25 cm long, 2-3 times as long as wide, broadly elliptic, truncate or cuneate, acute or acuminate, glabrate, with a small nectary near base of midrib beneath or sometimes with 3 nectaries located more distally, without domatia; petioles 1/4-1/2 the length of the blades. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 3 cm long (in flower) to 16 cm long (in fruit), slender; involucellar nectaries absent; involucellar bractlets 3, 1.5-2 mm long, subulate, persistent, inconspicuous; calyx 6-8 mm long, proximally puberulent, distally glabrate, becoming torn following anthesis; petals 20~22 mm long, fringed and asymmetrically distorted distally; filaments of staminate flowers 4-7 mm long. Capsules 3 cm in diameter, pendulous, globose, coriaceous, externally greenish puberulent, internally glabrous; seeds ca. 1 cm long, 2 or 3 per locule, almost black. Chromosome number unknown.A

Forma de crecimiento

Árbol/arborescente

Forma de vida

Terrestre

Nutrición

Autotrófica

Distribución

México (país) EndémicoA

Elevación

1700 mA

Tipo de vegetación

Selva altaA

Categoría IUCN

En peligro crítico (CR)B

Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010

No incluidaC

Estatus del taxón

(A) Como definida actualmente, probablemente una entidad natural (monofilética)

Bibliografía

A. Fryxell, P. A. 1988: Malvaceae of Mexico. – Syst. Bot. Monogr. 25: 1-522
B. IUCN 2022: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Versión 2022-2
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]