Hibiscus kochii Fryxell
Descripción
Shrubs 1-2 m tall with few branches, the stems roughly pubescent, the hairs 4- armed and more or less appressed. Leaf blades mostly 6-12 cm long (smaller upward), ovate, truncate, coarsely serrate, acuminate, coarsely and sparsely stellate-pubescent above and beneath, with a nectary at the base of the midrib beneath; petioles 3-7 mm long; stipules 5-13 mm long, subulate, erect, persistent. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 0.5-2 cm long, articulated 4-7 mm below the flowers; densely stellate-pubescent; involucel basally rounded, the bracts 9-10, 13-16 mm long, 1-2.1 mm wide, linear, essentially distinct; calyx 10-12 mm long, less than half-divided, more or less urceolate, neither accrescent nor inflated, yellowish at base, the lobes acute, usually dark purple with paler veins; petals 16-18 mm long, red, narrowly spatulate (3-5 mm wide), erect, forming a tubular corolla, abaxially coarsely stellate-pubescent; staminal column 22-23 mm long, exserted, pallid, subglabrous, the filaments 2-3 mm long, the anthers red-orange; styles slender, glabrous, reddish, the stigmas 0.2-0.4 mm in diameter, reddish. Capsules 12 mm long, oblong-ovoid, antrorsely strigose, the hairs 1-1.5 mm long; seeds 2.2 mm long, sericeous, the hairs 3--4 mm long. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Ecología y Hábitat
Occurs in coastal Oaxaca and Guerrero, generally at low elevation, in seasonally dry deciduous forest as an understory shrub. It flowers in October and November.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC