Anoda palmata Fryxell
Description
Erect widely branching herbs 1-1.5 m tall, the stems, petioles, and pedicels stellate-pubescent and with a few glandular hairs, sometimes also with long simple hairs. Leaf blades mostly 3-8 (~10) cm long, variable, the juvenile ones ovate or shallowly lobed, becoming progressively more deeply palmately 5-lobed (ultimately 3-lobed) upward, the lobes becoming narrowly linear-lanceolate, subentire, with more or less appressed simple hairs above, evenly stellate-pubescent beneath; petioles 1/2-1 times the length of the blades. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, forming an open terminal raceme more or less above the leaves; pedicels 2-5 cm long, slender; calyx 5-8 mm long (not accrescent), densely covered with stellate and glandular hairs; corolla without a dark center, the petals 6-9 mm long, yellow; staminal column 2-3 mm long, pallid, prominently hirsute apically, the filaments 1-2 mm long; styles 813. Fruits 8-9 mm in diameter, oblate, densely stellate-pubescent; mericarps 8-13, dorsally umbonate (the spur 1 mm long), the lateral walls evanescent, the persistent reticulate endocarp 2.5-3 mm long and completely enclosing the seed. Chromosome number: 2n = 30.A
Distribution
México (país) EndémicoA
Altitude
600 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC