Gossypium thurberi Tod.
Descripción
Shrubs ca. 2 m tall, the stems pentangular when young, green, glabrate. Leaf blades mostly 5-15 cm long, subcordate, glabrous, deeply 3-5-lobed, the central lobe basally constricted, narrowly lanceolate (4-6 times as long as wide), long- acuminate, with a nectary near base of midrib beneath; petioles 1/2-3/4 the length of the blades, ridged; stipules 5-10 mm long, linear. Flowers borne on lateral sympodial inflorescences; pedicels 1-3 cm long, erect, glabrous, surmounted by 3 prominent nectaries; involucellar bracts 8-12 mm long, inserted above the nectaries, mm distinct, ligulate, entire or trifid, persistent; calyx 3 mm long, truncate, glabrous; corolla rotate, cream with a vestigial red spot at base (or spot absent), the petals 1.5-2.5 cm long; staminal column 9 mm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments 3-4 long; style slightly exceeding androecium. Capsules 10-15 mm long, subglobose to oblong, 3-loculed, persistent, externally glabrous, internally pubescent on suture of dehiscence, the hairs ca. 2 mm long; seeds 3-4 mm long, blackish, subglabrous. Chromosome number: 2n = 26. A,B
Forma de crecimiento
ArbustoA
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Nutrición
AutotróficaA
Estatus del taxón
(A) Como definida actualmente, probablemente una entidad natural (monofilética)A