Pavonia alia Fryxell
Descripción
Shrub to 1.5 m tall, the young stems sparsely pubescent, the hairs most abundant in narrow lines decurrent from the stipules, less than 0.5 mm long, simple and curled. Leaf blades 3-5.5 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, ovate, truncate or subcordate, coarsely crenate-serrate, narrowly acute, concolorous, with a few simple hairs (at least on the principal veins) and a few stellate hairs or glabrate above, with scattered 3—4-armed stellate hairs (1 mm long) and with shorter simple hairs on the nerves beneath; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long, with pubescence like that of stem principally on adaxial side; stipules 2-3 mm long, subulate, caducous. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf axils; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long at anthesis, slender, sparsely pubescent to subglabrous; involucellar bracts ca. 8-9, basally connate, linear-lanceolate, 89 mm long (exceeding the calyx), 1 mm wide or less, acute, nearly glabrous; calyx 6—7 mm long, narrowly campanulate, subglabrous or with a few very small stellate hairs, 5-lobed, the lobes 2-2.5 mm long, 3-ribbed, triangular; corolla 2.5-3 cm long, tubular (malvaviscoid), salmon (drying reddish), externally with minute hairs (dense in bud); staminal column exserted, glabrous, pallid, with 5 apical teeth, the filaments 1-2.5 mm long, the anthers and pollen yellowish; styles 10, exceeding the staminal column, the stigmas capitate, reddish. Fruits unknown. Chromosome number unknown. A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
1900A
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de encinoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Bibliografía
C. SEMARNAT: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, Protección ambiental-Especies nativas de México de flora y fauna silvestres-Categorías de riesgo y especificaciones para su inclusión, exclusión o cambio-Lista de especies en riesgo, publicada el 30 de diciembre de 2010. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-12-10 09:14]