Hibiscus costatus A. Rich.
Descripción
Perennial herbs or shrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall, the stems more or less scabrous. Leaf blades mostly 5-10 cm long, ovate or 3-5-angular (rarely lobed), cordate, serrate, acute to acuminate, sparsely scabrous above and beneath, with nectary at base of midrib beneath; petioles -1 times the length of the blades; stipules 5-8 mm long, filiform. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels exceeding the subtending petioles, scabrous; involucellar bracts 10-12, shorter than the calyx, apically bifurcate, hispid; calyx 2-3 cm long, more than half-divided, more or less hispid to glabrate, with prominent marginal costae, the costae often reddish, otherwise greenish; petals 5~7 cm long, lavender; staminal column 2.5-4.5 cm long, glabrous, expanded distally, the filaments 1-2 mm long; styles exceeding the androecium, ciliate, the stigmas 1.5 mm in diameter. Capsules 1.5-2 cm long, ovoid, densely strigose, the hairs appressed and antrorse; seeds 3.5 mm long, glabrous. Chromosome number: 2n = 36.A
Elevación
<700 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
It grows in wet savannas, rain forest, in secondary vegetation on disturbed sites (usually on locally wet soils), and sometimes on the borders of marshes, and flowers more or less throughout the year.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC