Gossypium aridum (Rose & Standl.) Skovst.
Descripción
Trees 4-10 m tall (occasionally shrubs), the stems minutely puberulent, eventually glabrate. Leaves spirally disposed, the blades mostly 6-15 cm long, broadly to narrowly ovate (rarely obscurely trilobulate), truncate or weakly cordate, acuminate, more or less minutely stellate-pubescent, palmately 5-nerved; petioles 1/5-1/2 the length of the blades; stipules 1-2 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary or paired in the leaf axils, mostly appearing after the leaves fall; pedicels 2-8 mm long, yellowish puberulent, surmounted by 3 prominent bordered nectaries; involucellar bractlets 2-4 mm long, each inserted above a nectary, triangular, entire, appressed, persistent; calyx 6-9 mm long, yellowish farinose, shallowly 5-dentate; corolla funnelform, rose or lavender with a dark red or purplish throat, the petals 3.5-5 cm long; staminal column ca. half the length of the petals, pallid, the filaments 3-4 mm long, purplish, the anthers purplish, the pollen yellow-orange; style exceeding androecium. Capsules 2-2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, narrowly ovoid, glabrous, 3 (-4)-celled, fully dehiscent but not flaring widely; seeds 4-6 mm long, numerous, with dense brown hairs tightly appressed to the seed. Chromosome number: 2n = 26.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
Vulnerable (VU)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
Sujeta a protección especial (Pr)C