Luehea speciosa Willd.
Descripción
A large shrub or more often a tree, sometimes 25 meters high with a trunk 45-60 cm. in diameter, often buttressed, the crown spreading; bark light to dark brown or almost black, slightly scaly, the inner bark light to dark brown; young branchlets densely stellate-tomentose, the older ones dark ferruginous; leaves short-petiolate, deciduous, often thick and firm, elliptic to oval or elliptic-ovate, 10-20 cm. long, abruptly acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, green above and sparsely stellate-scabrous, beneath covered with a dense or lax, white to brownish, stellate tomentum, finely or coarsely serrate; bractlets commonly about 1.5 cm. long; calyx densely stellate-tomentose, generally 1.5 cm. long or some- what larger; petals white, 2.5-4 cm. long; capsule 3-4 cm. long, densely brown-tomentose, not sulcate, obtusely 5-angulate or subterete, very hard and woody.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
<1100 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva baja, Bosque de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC