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
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