Pseudabutilon thurberi (A. Gray) Fryxell
Descripción
Erect or decumbent subshrubs less than 1 m tall, the stems terete, green, prominently pilose, the hairs 2-4 mm long (or sometimes nearly glabrous). Leaf blades up to 6 cm long, almost as wide, ovate, cordate, prominently and coarsely crenate- serrate, acute or acuminate, sparsely pubescent above and beneath with appressed simple hairs ca. 2 mm long and occasional stellate hairs; petioles 1/2-1 times the length of the blades; stipules 4-9 mm long, subulate to spatulate, ciliate, persistent. Flowers solitary or paired in the leaf axils; pedicels 0.5-2.5 cm long, slender, pilose, articulated ca. 2 mm below the flowers; calyx 4-5 mm long in flower, to 7 mm long in fruit, basally rounded, with minute glandular and a few stellate hairs and prominently setose (the hairs 1-3 mm long), ca. half-divided, the lobes ecostate, ovate-acuminate; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 4-6 mm long, yellowish; androecium unknown; styles 5. Fruits subequal to calyx, 5-6 mm long and wide, hispidulous, straw-colored at maturity; mericarps 5, usually 3-seeded, with scattered stellate pubescence, apically spinescent, the spine 2-3 mm long; seeds 2-3 mm long, sparsely stellate-puberulent. Chromosome number: 2n = 16.A,1
1. As Abutilon thurberi.
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
800 – 1100 mB
Ecología y Hábitat
Occurs in dry, open habitats.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD