Hibiscus striatus Cav.
Descripción
Perennial herbs or subshrubs 2-3 m tall, the stems densely stellate-tomentose and with a few scattered prickles. Leaf blades mostly 11-19 cm long, 2-3 times as long as wide, narrowly lanceolate or hastate, truncate or subcordate, serrate, acute or acuminate, slightly discolorous, densely and softly tomentose above and beneath; petioles ca. half the length of the blades; stipules 3-14 mm long, subulate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 2-4 cm long, shorter than the subtending petioles, with pubescence like stem; involucellar bracts 10-12, 18-20 mm long, distinct, linear, hispid; calyx 3-4 cm long, minutely tomentose with hispid hairs toward the base, somewhat inflated in fruit, less than half-divided, the lobes acuminate; corolla lavender with a small red spot at base, the petals 8-10 cm long; staminal column 3-3.5 cm long, glabrous, the filaments 1 mm long; styles connate essentially throughout, glabrous, the stigma a S-lobed disk, white. Capsules 3 cm long, oblong-ovoid, densely brown-hispid, the hairs 3-5 mm long; seeds 3.5 mm long, densely short-pubescent. Chromosome number: 2n = 52.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
Marshes No especificadoB
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD