Cienfuegosia intermedia Fryxell
Description
Perennial herbs, the stems prostrate to ascending, glabrate, weakly angulate. Leaf blades 1-2 cm long, about as wide or somewhat wider, 3-lobed (rarely 5-lobed), the lobes obovate-obtuse (or -apiculate), the base constricted (sinus open), glabrate above, sparsely pubescent beneath, the margins ciliate; petioles subequal to the blades, stipules 4 mm long, lanceolate. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 1.5~ 3.5 cm long in flower to 8 cm long in fruit, sparsely pubescent to glabrate; involucellar nectaries absent; involucellar bracts 8-10, 4-6 mm long, linear-lanceolate, ciliate; calyx ca. 10 mm long, whitish in intercostal areas, otherwise green, ca. half-divided, the lobes 3-ribbed, ciliate, acute or acuminate; petals 2 cm long, pale yellow or cream-colored with a red-purple spot at the base, stellate-pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially; staminal column 6 mm long, pallid to purplish, glabrous, the filaments 2—-3 mm long, purple, the anthers and pollen yellow-orange; style pallid, glabrous, subequal to petals, the stigma capitate, 3 (-4)-lobed, purplish, villous. Capsules 6-9 mm long, subspherical, verruculate, externally and internally glabrous, 3 (-4)-loculate; seeds 3.5 mm long, densely pubescent, the hairs crimped, appressed, silvery-gray. Chromosome number unknown.A
Distribution
México (país) EndémicoA
Habitat & Ecology
Occurs in dry, open habitats. It flowers from June to October and probably at other seasons in response to available moisture.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC