Luehea seemannii Triana & Planch.
Descripción
A tall tree, often 30 meters high or even more, with a trunk a meter or more in diameter, the young branchlets stellate-tomentulose, the older ones ferruginous; leaves persistent, usually subcoriaceous, short-petiolate, oblong to oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded and often subcordate at the base, acutely serrate above the middle, green and glabrate above, densely covered beneath with a fine close brownish tomentum; flowers smaller than in other species and much more numerous, forming large or small panicles; bractlets mostly 6-7 mm. long; calyx 1 cm. long, densely stellate-tomentose; petals white or cream-colored, little exceeding the calyx; capsule 2 cm. long, densely brown-tomentose, deeply 5-sulcate and acutely angulate.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
<300 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de otro tipoA
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC