Herissantia crispa (L.) Brizicky
Description
Perennial herbs or subshrubs, the stems slender and flexuous, usually trailing or decumbent, occasionally scandent, stellate-pubescent and usually also with long simple hairs. Leaf blades up to 7 cm long (progressively reduced upward), cordate, ovate, crenate, acute, petiolate below to subsessile above. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 6-7 mm long, slender, recurved; calyx 4-7 mm long, reflexed in fruit; corolla without a dark center, the petals 6~11 mm long, ciliate on margins of claw, the hairs less than 0.5 mm long; staminal column 2-2.5 mm long, glabrous; styles 10-11, greenish, the stigmas maroon. Fruits 1.5-2 cm in diameter, inflated, hirsute; mericarps 10-12, rounded, laterally compressed, 3-seeded, dorsally dehiscent; seeds 1.7 mm long, minutely scabridulous. Chromosome number: 2n = 14.A
Distribution
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC