Callianthe picta (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Donnell
Descripción
Shrubs 2-4 m tall, largely glabrate. Leaf blades mostly 8~15 cm long, truncate to cordate, moderately 3-lobed to deeply 5-parted, the lobes lanceolate, serrate, acuminate, essentially concolorous; petioles 1/2-1 times the length of the blades; stipules 5-9 mm long, lance-ovate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 6~15 cm long, slender, articulated 2-9 mm below the flowers; calyx 1.5-3 cm long, ca. half-divided, sparsely and minutely stellate-pubescent; corolla more or less tubular, the petals 3.5-4.5 cm long, yellow with dark red claw and conspicuous dark-red venation; androecium equaling or slightly exceeding corolla, yellow, the filaments 3-4 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 8-10. Fruits ca. 1.5 cm long, ca. 2 cm in diameter, minutely stellate-pubescent; mericarps 8-10, less than 2 cm long, probably 4-6-seeded, apically rounded. Chromosome number: 2n = 16.A
Ecología y Hábitat
Occurs in Mexico in cultivation and is occasionally naturalized, generally in disturbed sites. It is native to Brazil and perhaps other parts of South America and is cultivated or naturalized in various parts of Latin America and elsewhere.A
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC