Gossypium turneri Fryxell
Descripción
Spreading shrubs ca. 1 m tall, the younger stems stellate-tomentulose, the older stems with red-brown bark and prominent lenticels. Leaf blades thick-textured, 2-4 cm long and equally wide, cordate, shallowly 3-lobed, acute to obtuse, subglabrous, with a foliar nectary near base of midrib beneath; petioles equaling or exceeding the blades; stipules 3-7 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels ca. 2 cm long, equaling or exceeding the subtending petioles, medially articulate, with caducous bracts at articulation, surmounted by 3 prominent nectaries; involucellar bracts 9-26 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, inserted above the nectaries, ovate, usually laciniate, caducous at anthesis; calyx 5-8 mm long, subtruncate, sub- glabrous, prominently gland-dotted; corolla yellow with a red center, the petals 4~ 4.5 cm long; staminal column 16-17 mm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments 5-6 mm long; style somewhat shorter than the petals. Capsules 1-1.5 cm long, globose to ovoid, 3-5-loculed, prominently glandular, flaring widely at maturity, externally glabrous, internally hirsute on suture of dehiscence, the hairs 2 mm long; seeds 7-8 mm long, brownish with tightly appressed hairs. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Desert habitats No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
En peligro crítico (CR)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
En peligro de extinción (P)C