Anoda pentaschista A. Gray
Description
Erect subshrubs 1-2 m tall, single-stemmed but widely branching, the stems minutely stellate-pubescent becoming glabrescent, often purplish pigmented. Leaf blades coriaceous, highly variable in form and size, the lower leaves ovate or more or less 3-lobed, remotely and irregularly dentate, the upper leaves narrowly oblong or linear, sometimes hastately toothed at base, otherwise virtually entire, markedly discolorous (sparsely stellate-tomentose and gray-green above, densely stellate- tomentose and whitish beneath); petioles commonly 1/4 the length of the blades (but up to 2/3 as long in juvenile leaves). Inflorescence a lax panicle; pedicels 1.5-3.5 cm long, slender, articulated near middle; calyx 3-5 mm long, minutely pubescent with darkly pigmented midvein; corolla without a dark center, the petals ca. 1 cm long, yellow; staminal column ca. 3 mm long, pallid, minutely and sparsely scabrid toward apex, otherwise glabrous, the filaments 1.5 mm long, the anthers yellowish; styles 5 - 8, pallid, slightly exceeding androecium. Fruits 4-5 mm in diameter, oblate, minutely pubescent; mericarps 5-8, indehiscent, dorsally spurred, the lateral walls evanescent; seeds ca. 2 mm long, endocarp absent. Chromosome number: 2n = 30.A
Altitude
<600(- 1500) mA
Habitat & Ecology
Occurs widely in Mexico at low elevation, usually below 600 m but occasionally as high as 1500 m. It is commonly found in disturbed situations, such as roadsides and agricultural fields, and flowers throughout the year.
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC