Abutilon glabriflorum Hochr.
Description
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
Distribution
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Estatus del taxón
(A) Probablemente una entidad natural (monofilética)A
Discussion
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