Abutilon vexillarium E. Morren
Descripción
Erect shrubs 1 m tall, the stems very sparsely and minutely stellate-pubescent glabrate, the young stems often purplish. Leaf blades 3-6 cm long, 2.5 (-3) cm wide, triangularly and narrowly ovate, more or less cordate, crenate-serrate, acute or acuminate, essentially glabrous, concolorous; petioles ca. 1/4 the length of the blades; stipules 6-9 mm long, 5 mm wide, sessile, broadly ovate and amplexicaul, subequal to petioles, often purplish, caducous. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 1.5-2 cm long, exceeding the petiole, slender, purplish; calyx 1.5-2.5 cm long, tubular and inflated, purplish, apically 5-lobed, the lobes 2-4 mm long; corolla tubular, the petals 2.5-3 cm long, 8-12 mm wide, yellowish; androecium manifestly exserted, purplish, the filaments 4-5 mm long, more or less erect, the anthers purple; styles ca. 8 (?), purple, included in androecium. Fruits unknown. Chromosome number: 2n = 16.A
Distribución
México (país) ExóticoA, Sudamérica Presente
Ecología y Hábitat
A South American species that is widely cultivated in the tropics as a garden shrub or sometimes as a pot-plant. It is sometimes encountered in Mexican gardens though seldom in herbaria.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC