Anotea flavida (DC.) Ulbrich
Description
Shrubs 2-3 m tall, with stellate puberulence. Leaf blades mostly 10-17 cm long, cordate, pentagonal to shallowly 5-lobed, about as wide as long, coarsely crenate-dentate, without foliar nectaries; petioles almost as long as blades below to much shorter upward; stipules linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Inflorescence racemose (or sometimes paniculate); pedicels axillary; involucel basally gamophyllous, bractlets 10-12, linear-acuminate, about equaling the calyx in fruit; calyx 12 mm long, half-divided; petals 25 mm long, cream-yellow with darker veins, without basal auricles, erect, forming a tubular corolla; androecium greatly exserted (twice the length of the corolla in bud to 4 times its length at anthesis), pallid, sparsely pubescent, apically 5-dentate; stamens 20-40, yellow, in upper half of column, the filaments 2-3 mm long; styles 10, diverging for 6-7 mm above androecium; stigmas capitate. Fruits schizocarpic (a fleshy berry), 1 cm in diameter, oblate, blue-black at maturity, the 5 carpels each 1-seeded. Chromosome number: 2n = 56.
Altitude
900 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de pino-encinoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC