Abutilon mucronatum J.E. Fryxell
Descripción
Shrubs 1 m tall, well branched, the stems minutely viscid-puberulent, the fresh herbage malodorous. Leaf blades up to 6 cm long (usually smaller), ovate, cordate, serrate, acute to usually acuminate, densely and minutely stellate-tomentulose above and beneath; petioles 1/2-1 times the length of the blades; stipules 2-3 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or sometimes paniculately disposed; pedicels 1-2 cm long, slender, viscid; calyx 3-5 mm long, glandular-pubescent, more than half-divided, the lobes triangular-acuminate, 1-nerved, erect in fruit; corolla without a dark center, petals 3-5 mm long, glabrous, strongly reflexed, pink-margined or pink almost throughout, distally mucronate; staminal column 2-3 mm long, pallid, with a few stellate scabrid hairs near the base, the filaments 1-2 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles and stigmas 5, with slightly darker pigmentation than androecium. Fruits 7-8 mm long, ca. 6 mm in diameter, cylindrical, minutely stellate- and glandular-pubescent; mericarps 5, 2-3-seeded, apically acute or apiculate; seeds 2 mm long, dark-pigmented, with minute whitish pubescence. Chromosome number: 2n = 14.A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
1500 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Open, arid habitats.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC