Hibiscus acicularis Standl.
Descripción
Small shrubs, the stems with appressed stellate hairs, the 4 arms aligned 2-by-2 longitudinally with the stem axis. Leaf blades mostly 2.5-5 cm long, lance-ovate (rarely sublobate), subcordate or truncate, coarsely dentate, acute, with scattered stellate pubescence above and beneath; petioles to 2 cm long; stipules 4-6 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 2-6.5 cm long, usually exceeding the subtending leaves; involucellar bracts 10-15 (-20), 20-26 mm long, linear, ciliate (the hairs ca. 1 mm long), distinct; calyx 19-24 mm long, ciliate (the hairs 1-2 mm long), deeply divided, neither accrescent nor inflated; petals 2.4-3 cm long, yellow with a small but prominent purple spot at base, externally pubescent, minutely ciliate on margins of claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column ca. 8 mm long, glabrous, purplish, the filaments 1-1.5 mm long, often purplish, the anthers purplish, the pollen yellow-orange; styles pallid, glabrous, the stigmas 0.6-0.8 mm in diameter, purple. Capsules 8~9 mm long, subglobose, glabrous; seeds 3 mm long, sericeous, the hairs brownish, ca. 3 mm long. Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
500 – 1650 mA
Tipo de vegetación
dry matorral Matorral de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC