Batesimalva violacea (Rose) Fryxell
Description
Shrubs 1.5-2 m tall, the stems softly stellate-tomentose and with simple hairs 1-1.5 mm long. Leaf blades mostly 6-10 cm long, ovate to lance-ovate, cordate, coarsely crenate, acute or acuminate, discolorous, sparsely pubescent above, densely velvety beneath; petioles 3/4-1 times the length of the blades; stipules vestigial, 0.5 mm long or less. Flowers 1-4 in the leaf axils, chasmogamous; pedicels 2— 6.5 cm long (shorter than to equaling or occasionally exceeding the subtending petioles), slender; calyx 6~-8 mm long, ca. 2/3-divided, the lobes 2-4 mm wide, minutely stellate-tomentose and with long simple hairs; petals 6-8 mm long, blue- violet, abaxially puberulent but adaxially glabrous (including the claw); staminal column 2-3 mm long, the filaments 1-1.5 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 8-10, slender, sometimes minutely pubescent. Fruits 10-12 mm in diameter, disciform, 8-10-lobed, minutely pubescent; mericarps 8-10, the lower cell partially covered by an endoglossum ca. 1 mm long; seeds ca. 2.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent to subglabrous. Chromosome number unknown.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC