Triumfetta bogotensis DC.
Descripción
Shrubs about 1-2 m. high; branches and inflorescence axes with many long, spreading hairs. Leaves broadly ovate, usually 3-lobed, 9-10 cm. long and 7-8 cm. wide, the base rounded to subcordate, the tip acuminate, the serrations very irregular, unequal and blunt, both surfaces lightly pubescent with both stellate and simple hairs, the latter prominent, long, either spreading or appressed; petioles about 4-6 cm. long, much shorter in the bracts, very densely tomentose with long simple and stellate hairs. Inflorescences axillary, the cymes of 2 or 3 cymules, the bracts broadly elliptical, the subtending bracteoles prominent, the flowering peduncles 4-7 mm. long, the pedicels 3-4 mm. long. Flowers hermaphrodite, the buds oblongoid, 7-11 mm. long slightly before anthesis, constricted about the middle, the apical appendages slender, 2-3 mm. long, lightly pubescent; sepals oblong, 8-13 mm. long including the appendages, long-hirsute without, glabrescent within; petals broadly obovate, about 8-9 mm. long and 3-4 mm. wide, the claw about 2 mm. long, densely plumose; gonophore slender, about 1 mm. long and 0.5 mm. wide, the glands elliptical, subequalling the gonophore; urceolus short, 0.25-0.50 mm. high, not lobed, distinctly ciliate; stamens 25-30, the filaments glabrous, without serrations; ovary suborbicular, about 1.5 mm. long, the spinules numerous, recurved, the style 8-9 mm. long, the stigma acute. Fruit spheroid, the body about 3-4 mm. in diameter at maturity, 3-loculate, each cell 2-seeded, the spines slender, about 75, retrorsely pilosulose, about 3 mm. long; seeds lenticular, 2-3 mm. long and about 2 mm. wide.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoB
Elevación
2000A
Ecología y Hábitat
A widespread weedy species of tropical America, which grows in waste lands, cut-over forest areas, and on hill-sloA widespread weedy species of tropical America, which grows in waste lands, cut-over forest areas, and on hill-slopes.A
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)C
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD
Bibliografía
A. Lay, K. K. 1950: The American species of Triumfetta L. – Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37(3): 315–395. https://doi.org/10.2307/2394513