Callianthe purpusii (Standl.) Donnell
Descripción
A shrub of 3 meters, the branches densely covered with a close brownish stellate tomentum; lower leaves long-petiolate, the upper on rather short petioles; leaf blades ovate-cordate or rounded-cordate, 10-20 cm. long, acuminate or long-acuminate, deeply cordate at the base, crenate-dentate, green above, sparsely and almost minutely stellate-pubescent or in age glabrous, beneath finely and densely stellate-pubescent; peduncles axillary, simple, 5-12 cm. long, articulate near the apex, the flowers nutant; calyx 2 cm. long, costate, densely stellate-tomentose with brownish tomentum, the lobes oval-ovate, acute or obtuse, mucronate; petals 3-3.5 cm. long; carpels 8-10, rounded at the apex, 2-3 cm. long, stellate- tomentose.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
900 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Wet forest.A
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC