Ayenia microphylla A. Gray
Descripción
Shrubs, erect or spreading, 0.2–0.6 m. Stems hairy, hairs stellate, arms appressed. Leaves: petiole 0.4–1.2 cm; blades of proximal leaves orbiculate to suborbiculate, 0.5 × 0.4 cm, distal ovate to narrowly ovate, unlobed, 0.5–2.1(–3) × 0.4–1.8 (–2) cm, base rounded or obscurely subcordate, margins serrate, stellate-hairy (not ciliate), apex acute to rounded, 3(–5)-veined from base, surfaces minutely, densely stellate-hairy. Cymes axillary, borne on short shoots (brachyblasts), 1- or 2-flowered; peduncle to 4 mm. Pedicels to 4 mm. Flowers: sepals caducous, not reflexed at anthesis, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–3.2 mm, densely stellate-pubescent abaxially; petal claws 4 mm, lamina reniform-deltate, 1.4–1.6 × 1.5 mm, base lobed, lobes ± rectangular, margins entire, apex with 2 widely spaced teeth, surfaces glabrous, abaxial appendage absent; androgynophore 0.5–1 mm; stamen filaments present; stigmas scarcely exserted. Capsules subspheric, 4–5 × 4–5 mm, puberulent to densely stellate-pubescent, prickles 0.5 mm. Seeds 3 mm, tuberculate.A
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Elevación
600 – 1400 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Dry limestone, igneous rocky slopes.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC