Sidalcea malviflora (DC.) A. Gray ex Benth.
Descripción
Perennial herbs to 0.5 m tall, the stems with scattered coarse pubescence. Leaves long-petiolate below (the petioles up to 5 times the length of the blades) to short-petiolate near inflorescence (the petioles shorter than the blades), the blades 2-5 cm long basally, flabellate or circular in outline, crenate below and progressively smaller and more dissected upward, the divisions obtuse or acute, stellate pubescent. Inflorescence a terminal leafless raceme, the flowers pedicellate and bracteate; calyx 6~9 mm long, minutely stellate-pubescent, deeply divided; petals 1-2.5 cm long, rose-pink, ciliate on claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 5-8 mm long, pubescent; styles ca. 8. Fruits ca. 8 mm in diameter, oblate-depressed, minutely glandular-puberulent; mericarps ca. 8, ca. 3 mm long, reticulate-alveolate dorsally, ventrally dehiscent. Chromosome numbers: 2n = 20, 40, 60.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Ecología y Hábitat
At low elevation and flowers from March to August. A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
As "malvaeflora"A