Bastardiastrum gracile (Hochr.) Bates
Descripción
Herbs or subshrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall, widely branching, the stems minutely and densely velvety with larger stellate hairs interspersed, sometimes evenly purplish pigmented, sometimes only at the nodes. Leaf blades 4-9 cm long (smaller up- ward), ovate (sometimes narrowly so), truncate to cordate, finely and obscurely serrulate or crenulate, acuminate, minutely stellate-pubescent above and beneath; petioles shorter than to equaling the blades. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or clustered on cymose lateral branches, generally aggregated into leafy or leafless racemes or panicles; pedicels 0.5-2 cm long, minutely stellate-pubescent; calyx 6-10 mm long, prominently 10-ribbed, densely hirsute (especially on the ribs), the hairs 0.5-1 mm long, stellate; petals 7-10 mm long, white to pale lavender, mi- nutely ciliate on margins of claw; staminal column nearly obsolete, the filaments 4~ 6 mm long; styles 3. Fruits ca. 7 mm in diameter; mericarps 3, 5-6 mm long, each with 1-3 seeds; seeds 2.5 mm long, verruculate. Chromosome number unknown.A
Forma de crecimiento
o subarbusto HierbaA
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
100 – 600 mA
Tipo de vegetación
evergreen forests and in disturbed vegetation Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC