Abutilon parvulum A. Gray
Descripción
Perennial herbs or subshrubs with trailing branches, the stems sometimes dark- pigmented, minutely stellate-pubescent and sometimes also with simple hairs 1 mm long. Leaf blades up to 5 cm long (usually smaller), broadly ovate, cordate, coarsely dentate, acute, stellate-pubescent above and beneath (the surface visible through the hairs), essentially concolorous; petioles ½-1 times the length of the blades; stipules 2-4 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 1-2.5 cm long, slender; calyx 3-5 mm long, minutely stellate-pubescent, ca. half-divided, the lobes triangular, reflexed in fruit; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 4-7 mm long, more or less pinkish, glabrous throughout (including margins of claws); staminal column 2 mm tall, pallid, glabrous, the filaments 1 mm long, the anthers few (ca. 15), yellowish; styles 5, subequal to androecium. Fruits 8-9 mm long, 7-9 mm in diameter, more or less caskshaped; mericarps 5 (rarely 6), 3- seeded, minutely stellate-pubescent, apically acute or apiculate; seeds 2 mm long, blackish, minutely pubescent. Chromosome number: 2n = 14. A
Ecología y Hábitat
Occurs in relatively arid habitats. It apparently flowers more or less throughout the year, probably depending on available moisture. It is an inconspicuous plant and thus not often collected.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC