Abutilon malacum S. Watson

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Abutilon malacum S. Watson

Descripción

Herbs or subshrubs up to 1 m tall, the stems minutely stellate-tomentulose, the hairs yellowish. Leaf blades mostly 3-7 cm long, often as wide as long, suborbicular ovate, cordate, sharply serrate, acute, densely tomentulose; petioles 1/2-1 times long as the blades; stipules 5-9 mm long, subulate. Inflorescence a compact terminal panicle; pedicels 3-12 (-20) mm long; calyx 6-8 mm long, ca. half- divided, the lobes lance-ovate and erect in fruit; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 9-15 mm long, yellow, pubescent on margins of claw but other- wise glabrous; staminal column 3-4 mm long, pallid, stellate-pubescent, the filaments ca. 2 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 5. Fruits 6-7 mm long, about as wide, more or less cylindrical, coarsely stellate-pubescent, the hairs 0.5 mm long; mericarps 5, 3-seeded, usually acute; seeds 2 mm long, blackish, minutely pubes- cent (appearing glabrous). Chromosome number: 2n = 14.A

Forma de crecimiento

o arbusto Hierba

Forma de vida

Terrestre

Nutrición

Autotrófica

Distribución

México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA, Norteamérica al N de México PresenteA

Elevación

1500 m

Ecología y Hábitat

It occurs in relatively arid habitats; apparently flowers throughout the year.A

Tipo de vegetación

No especificadoA

Categoría IUCN

No incluidaB

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]