Gossypium lobatum Gentry
Descripción
Trees 3-7 m tall, the branches lax, minutely stellate-pubescent, becoming glabrate in age. Leaf blades mostly 7-15 cm long, usually wider than long, distichously arranged, deeply cordate (the sinus open or closed), divaricately 3-5- lobed, pedately nerved, obscurely gland-dotted, minutely stellate-pubescent; petioles 1/4-1/2 the length of the blades; stipules 8-10 mm long, lanceolate to falcate. Flowers in fascicles of 1-5 in the leaf axils, mostly appearing after the leaves fall; pedicels 3-8 mm long, stout, glabrate, surmounted by 3 prominent sunken nectaries; bracts of the involucel 4-5 mm long, inserted above the nectaries, broadly triangular, acute to obtuse, entire, appressed, nearly glabrous, persistent; calyx 12-15 mm long, yellowish, densely stellate-pubescent, manifestly 5-lobed, the lobes 6- 10 mm long, 1-nerved, acuminate, the sinuses rounded; corolla funnelform, lavender, purplish on lower half within, the petals 4-5 cm long; staminal column ca. 2 cm long, glabrous, the filaments 3-5 mm long, the anthers purplish, the pollen yellow- orange; style exceeding androecium, slender. Capsules 2-3 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter, ovoid, 3-celled, dehiscent but not flaring widely, minutely pubescent becoming glabrate, prominently gland-dotted, the glands raised, each 0.5-1 mm in diameter; seeds 10-11 mm long, several per locule, densely pubescent, the hairs grayish to tan, appressed. Chromosome number: 2n = 26. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
En peligro (EN)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
Amenazada (A)C