Eremalche exilis (A. Gray) Greene
Descripción
Annual herbs with ascending branches, the stems sometimes flushed with purple, sparsely pubescent, the mostly stellate hairs less than 1 mm long. Leaf blades 1-3 cm long, palmately 3-5-lobed, the lobes sometimes few-toothed or secondarily lobed, truncate, acute or obtuse, sparsely and minutely stellate-pubescent above and beneath; petioles 2-2 times the length of the blades. Flowers 1-4 in the leaf axils; pedicels up to 3 cm long (usually shorter), often subequal to the subtending leaves, slender; involucellar bracts 3-5 mm long; calyx 4-6 mm long, stellate- pubescent, ca. half-divided; petals ca. 6 mm long, pale lavender; styles 12-15. Fruits 4-5 mm in diameter, disciform, a circle of 12-15 mericarps around a central column; mericarps 1.5-2 mm in diameter, semicircular, prominently rugulose, blackish. Chromosome numbers: 2n = 20, 40.A
Tipo de vegetación
desert habitats No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC