Abutilon glabriflorum Hochr.
Descripción
Shrubs 1.5-3 m tall, minutely soft-pubescent. Leaf blades mostly 9-12 cm long, ovate, deeply cordate, finely denticulate to subentire, acuminate, palmately 7-9- nerved, softly stellate-pubescent above and beneath, discolorous; petioles 1/2-1 times the length of the blades; stipules 6-8 mm long, lanceolate or falcate, caducous. Flowers solitary or paired in the leaf axils; pedicels 2-6 cm long; calyx 10-15 mm long, softly whitish tomentose (hairs stellate, less than 0.5 mm long, sometimes also with simple hairs 2 mm long), ca. half-divided, the lobes cordate and overlapping basally; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 17-22 mm long, white, ciliate on claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column ca. 4 mm tall, pallid, glabrous, the filaments 2-4 mm long, ca. 100, the anthers yellow; styles ca. 13, slightly exceeding the androecium (half the length of the petals), the stigmas purple. Fruits ca. 10 mm long, 14~18 mm in diameter, stellate-pubescent; mericarps ca. 13, 3-seeded, apically acuminate or short-spinescent; seeds ca. 3 mm long, irregularly scabridulous. Chromosome number: 2n = 14. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
y matorral abierto Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Estatus del taxón
(A) Como definida actualmente, probablemente una entidad natural (monofilética)A
Discusión taxonómica
This species is unique among the Mexican species of Abutilon in having pure white corollas, a characteristic that was curiously omitted from the original description.A