Abutilon mucronatum J.E. Fryxell

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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

Forma de crecimiento

Arbusto

Forma de vida

Terrestre

Nutrición

Autotrófica

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

Estatus del taxón

(A) Como definida actualmente, probablemente una entidad natural (monofilética)

Bibliografía

A. Fryxell, P. A. 1988: Malvaceae of Mexico. – Syst. Bot. Monogr. 25: 1-522
B. IUCN 2022: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Versión 2022-2
C. SEMARNAT 2019: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010: 101 pp. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-05-04 06:16]