Abutilon californicum Benth.
Descripción
Shrubs to 1.5 (-2) m tall, roughly pubescent, the stellate hairs mostly sessile, rarely stipitate, often yellowish. Leaf blades 2-8 cm long, ovate, longer than wide, basally cordate or sometimes truncate, obscurely to prominently crenate-serrate, acute or acuminate, slightly discolorous; petioles usually shorter than (or subequal to) the blades; stipules 4~7 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or aggregated into racemes or panicles; pedicels 1-4 cm long, articulated 3~5 mm below the flowers, subequal to the petioles or longer; calyx 6-11 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent, the lobes basally cordate and overlapping (plicate in bud), acuminate; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 12-15 mm long, orange- yellow, stellate-pubescent on margin of claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 3-4 mm long, sparsely pubescent apically, the filaments ca. 2 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 7-10, glabrous, exceeding androecium. Fruits 12-15 mm long, 10-13 mm in diameter, exceeding the calyx; mericarps 7-10, nearly always 3-seeded, apically acuminate, stellate-pubescent, the hairs dimorphic (smaller hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long, larger hairs 0.4-0.6 mm long); seeds 3 mm long, sparsely and evenly pubescent. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Ecología y Hábitat
Generally in open, arid habitats at low elevations; it flowers more or less throughout the year depending on available moisture. A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC