Bastardia Kunth
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Descripción
Herbs or shrubs 0.5-3 m tall, pubescent with stellate, simple, and often glandular hairs. Leaves petiolate, the blades ovate, rarely lobulate, cordate-ovate, subentire to crenate or serrate, acute or acuminate, lacking foliar nectaries; stipules subulate. Flowers solitary or paired in the leaf axils, often aggregated into terminal leafy panicles; involucel absent; calyx divided almost to the base; petals relatively small, yellow; androecium included, pallid; styles 5-8, the stigmas capitate. Fruits schizocarpic but functionally capsular; mericarps 5-8, apically rounded or apiculate, 1-seeded; seeds minutely pubescent or glabrous. Base chromosome number: x = 7.A
Discusión taxonómica
Bastardia is a Neotropical genus of about eight species, two of which occur in Mexico.A