Pavonia lasiopetala Scheele
Descripción
Shrubs ca. 1 m tall, the stems densely to sparsely stellate-pubescent, sometimes dark-pigmented. Leaf blades mostly 2-5 cm long, slightly longer than wide, ovate, cordate, coarsely dentate, acute, discolorous, stellate-pubescent above and beneath; petioles half the length of the blades to equaling the blades; stipules 2-5 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 2-5 cm long, exceeding the subtending petioles, slender, with pubescence like stem; involucellar bracts 5, shorter than to subequal to calyx, 1-2 mm wide, alternate with calyx lobes, usually linear-lanceolate (or narrowly oblanceolate), hirsute; calyx 9-12 mm long, hirsute, more than half-divided, the lobes ovate, prominently 3-5-nerved, the nerves green, subparallel, the intercostal areas whitish; petals 1.5-2.5 cm long, rose-lavender, with a few stellate hairs abaxially in bud, ciliate on margins of claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 7-13 mm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments 2-3 mm long; styles slender, divergent, the stigmas usually villous. Fruits 8-9 mm in diameter, oblate, essentially glabrous; mericarps 3.5-4 mm long, obscurely carinate or smoothly rounded; seeds tufted on hilum. Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Ecología y Hábitat
Pavonia lasiopetala occurs in mixed forest and dry matorral in Coahuila and Nuevo León and also in southern and western Texas; it flowers in May and June. It is the northernmost representative of the genus.A
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de otro tipo, Matorral de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Bibliografía
C. SEMARNAT: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, Protección ambiental-Especies nativas de México de flora y fauna silvestres-Categorías de riesgo y especificaciones para su inclusión, exclusión o cambio-Lista de especies en riesgo, publicada el 30 de diciembre de 2010. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-12-10 09:14]