Melochia bernoulliana Donn. Sm.
Descripción
A slender shrub about 1.5 meters high with few long branches, the branches brown, very minutely puberulent, appearing glabrous; leaves thin, slender-petiolate, lance-ovate to broadly ovate, mostly 8-13 cm. long, very long-acuminate, rounded at the base, coarsely serrate, appearing glabrous but with obscure pubescence of minute stellate hairs; inflorescences cymose, few-flowered, lax and open, the flowers mostly on long slender pedicels, these often elongating in fruit; calyx 4 mm. high, minutely tomentulose, the lobes acuminate; petals 6 mm. long, purple; capsule short-stipitate, depressed-globose, 4 mm. long, deeply lobate, pilose.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoB
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaD
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaE