Pavonia monticola Fryxell
Descripción
Shrubs to 2 m tall, the stems densely glandular-pubescent, lacking long simple hairs. Leaf blades mostly 8-12 cm long, ca. half as wide, narrowly ovate, cordate, crenate-serrate, acuminate, discolorous, stellate-pubescent above and beneath, with denser coarser pubescence beneath and with intermixture of glandular hairs above; petioles mostly 1/2-3/4 the length of the blades; stipules 5-12 mm long, linear, glandular, relatively pubescent. Flowers solitary or paired in the leaf axils; pedicels up to 5.5 cm long, viscid, articulated 7-13 mm below the flowers; involucellar bracts 8, 8-15 mm long, linear, distinct, viscid; calyx 6 8 mm long, half-divided, the lobes ciliate (hairs more than 1 mm), 3-nerved, the nerves and margins dark green, the intercostal areas whitish; corolla rotate, the petals 10-12 mm long, yellow throughout, stellate-pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, densely bearded on claw; staminal column 6-7 mm long, glabrous, the filaments 1-3 mm long; styles glabrous, slightly exserted. Fruits oblate or somewhat obovate, essentially glabrous; mericarps subequal to column, smooth or weakly reticulate, narrowly winged laterally, with a small (0.3 mm) subapical cusp; seeds 4 mm long, glabrous. Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
700 – 1000 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva alta, Bosque de pino-encinoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC