Anoda albiflora Fryxell
Description
Herb or subshrub to 2 m tall, sparsely hirsute to glabrate. Leaf blades 3-7 cm long, ovate, becoming progressively narrower upward, sometimes weakly hastately lobed, crenate-serrate, acute, sparsely hirsute, the hairs mostly simple, on the upper surface appressed; petioles half the length of the blades or less. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or more or less aggregated apically; pedicels 1.5-6.5 cm long; calyx 8-10 mm long, prominently hirsute; corolla without a dark center, the petals 2-2.5 cm long, white, prominently hirsute on margins of claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column 4 mm long, pallid, hirsute toward apex, the filaments 2- 3 mm long; styles ca. 15, pallid. Fruits disciform with radiating spines; mericarps ca. 15, sparsely hispid, the dorsal spine 1.5 mm long, the lateral walls evanescent; seeds 2.6-2.8 mm long, not enclosed in endocarp, minutely verruculate. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribution
México (país) EndémicoA
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC