Malva lindsayi (Moran) M.F. Ray

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Malva lindsayi (Moran) M.F. Ray

Descripción

Low shrubs less than 1 m tall, the young stems densely and minutely whitish or yellowish tomentose, the internodes very short and the leaf scars of older stems crowded. Leaf blades 1.5-3 cm long, orbicular, deeply cordate, crenate, shallowly 5- lobed, the lobes obtuse, densely and minutely yellowish tomentose, concolorous; petioles equaling or exceeding the blades. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, pedicels subequal to the calyces; involucel cupuliform, 3-lobed, up to 1 cm long, with vesture like leaves; calyx 16 -22 mm long in flower to 26 mm long in fruit, with vesture like leaves, the lobes triangular; corolla campanulate, the petals 3-3.5 cm long, erect, deep purple, broadly obovate, glabrous including the margins of the claw; staminal column ca. 28 mm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments ca. 2 mm long, the anthers pallid; styles 8-10. Fruits 9-12 mm in diameter, enclosed by the calyx, glabrous; mericarps 8~10, smooth; seeds unknown. Chromosome number unknown.A,1
1. As Lavatera lindsayi.

Forma de crecimiento

Arbusto

Forma de vida

Terrestre

Nutrición

Autotrófica

Distribución

México (país) EndémicoA

Tipo de vegetación

No especificadoA

Categoría IUCN

No incluidaB

Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010

No incluidaC

Estatus del taxón

(A) Como definida actualmente, probablemente una entidad natural (monofilética)

Bibliografía

A. Fryxell, P. A. 1988: Malvaceae of Mexico. – Syst. Bot. Monogr. 25: 1-522
B. IUCN 2022: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Versión 2022-2
C. SEMARNAT 2019: MODIFICACIÓN del Anexo Normativo III, Lista de especies en riesgo de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010: 101 pp. – https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5578808&fecha=14/11/2019#gsc.tab=0 [accessed 2023-05-04 06:16]