Malvaviscus achanioides (Turcz.) Fryxell
Descripción
Shrubs 3-4 m tall, sometimes scandent, the stems and petioles densely and uniformly pubescent, the hairs 1-2 mm long. Leaf blades often 15-25 cm long, ovate or lanceolate, truncate, crenate-serrate to subentire, acuminate or acute, stellate-pubescent (especially on veins) above and beneath, sparsely so above; petioles mostly 1/3-1/2 the length of the blades. Flowers axillary but usually clustered 2 or more at the tips of the branches; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long; involucellar bractlets 8-9, ca. 1 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, nearly distinct, linear, hirsute; calyx 16-19 mm long, tubular, ca. 1/3-divided, markedly and evenly hirsute (hairs 1-2 mm long), yellowish becoming whitish in fruit, with green veins; petals 4 cm long, pink or red; staminal column 5.5-6 cm long, exserted, glabrous, pallid, antheriferous in distal 6-7 mm, the filaments 1-3 mm long, the anthers ca. 25, purplish; stigmas dark red, slightly exceeding the staminal column. Fruits 1-1.5 cm in diameter, enclosed by the calyces. Chromosome number unknown.A
Elevación
150 – 1500 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva altaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC