Pseudabutilon ellipticum (Schltdl.) Fryxell
Descripción
Shrubs 1-2 (-3) m tall, coarsely stellate-pubescent. Leaf blades mostly 5-11 cm long, about twice as long as wide, ovate to elliptic, truncate, serrate, acute or acuminate, more or less discolorous; petioles 1/4-1/2; the length of the blades; stipules 5-9 mm long, subulate. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles; calyx 6—8 mm long, stellate-pubescent, basally rounded, more than half-divided, the lobes ovate-acuminate; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 8—-15 mm long, yellow or yellow-orange, broadly obovate; staminal column 4-6 mm long, pallid, stellate-pubescent at base, the filaments ca. 2 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 5-7, slender, pallid. Fruits 13-14 mm long, 8-10 mm in diameter, coarsely stellate-pubescent, closely invested by and exceeding calyx; mericarps 5-7, 3-seeded, apically spinose, the spines divergent, 1-4 mm long; seeds ca. 2 mm long, blackish, minutely squamose. Chromosome number: 2n = 16.A,1
1. As Abutilon ellipticum.
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
1200 – 2600 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Pine-oak-Liquidambar forest, disturbed sites, sometimes reaching cloud forest.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva baja, Bosque de pino-encinoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC