Abutilon hirtum (Lam.) Sweet
Descripción
Robust herbs ca. 1 m tall, the stems viscid and with long simple hairs 2-5 mm long. Leaf blades mostly 5-7 cm long, subrotund, cordate, finely serrate, acuminate, softly tomentose beneath, more sparsely pubescent above; petioles equaling to greatly exceeding the blades; stipules 7-9 mm long, lanceolate, recurved. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils but the inflorescence becoming a terminal panicle; pedicels 2-3.5 cm long; calyx 12-27 mm long, ca. half-divided, stellate-tomentulose; corolla rotate, with a dark red center, the petals 18-20 mm long, orange-yellow; staminal column 7 mm long, pubescent, the filaments 4 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 20-25. Fruits 12-14 mm long, ca. 2 cm in diameter, oblate, exceeding the calyx; mericarps 20-25, 3-seeded, apically obtuse to acute, stellate-hirsute, the hairs ca. 1 mm long; seeds 2.4-2.8 mm long, minutely scabridulous. Chromosome number: 2n =42. A
Ecología y Hábitat
Its occurrence in Mexico is sporadic in the eastern lowlands .A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD