Pseudabutilon orientale (Standl. & Steyerm.) Fryxell
Descripción
Widely branching subshrubs to 1 m tail, the branches often scandent on other vegetation and drooping, the stems green, usually with both stellate and simple hairs (1-2 mm long) interspersed. Leaf blades mostly 6-8 (-13) cm long, progressively smaller toward branch tip, ovate, cordate, crenate, acuminate, slightly discolorous, minutely stellate-pubescent; petioles ca. half the length of the blades on midstem leaves, progressively shorter upwards; stipules 4-8 mm long, subulate. Flowers usually solitary in the axils; pedicels 4-15 mm long, articulated 1-2 mm below the flowers, with both stellate and glandular hairs; calyx 4 mm long, cupuliform, glandular- and stellate-pubescent, shallowly 5-lobed, the lobes triangular-acuminate, the sinuses broadly rounded; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 5~7 mm long, yellow; staminal column 2-3 mm long, pallid, stellate- pubescent, the filaments 1.5 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 5-6, slender, glabrous, exceeding the androecium. Fruits 5-6 mm long, about as wide, closely invested by calyx, pseudocapsular, minutely stellate- and glandular-pubescent; mericarps (4-) 5 (-6), apically acute and forming spines, constricted basally, completely divided internally by a broad, double endoglossum, the lower cell indehiscent, i-seeded, the upper cell loculicidally dehiscent, 2-seeded; seeds ca. 1.6 mm long, glabrous. Chromosome number unknown. A,1
1. As Abutilon orientale.
Elevación
<200 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC