Abutilon wrightii A. Gray
Descripción
Procumbent or ascending perennial herbs or subshrubs less than 0.5 m tall, the stems slender, sometimes purplish, with minute stellate pubescence and usually also with long simple hairs ca. 1 mm long. Leaf blades 1.5-4 cm long, about as wide, ovate, deeply cordate, dentate, acute to obtuse, markedly discolorous, green and sparsely pubescent above, whitish or gray-green with soft densely matted pubescence beneath; petioles often longer than the blades; stipules 3-4 mm long, filiform. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils; pedicels 1-3 (-4) cm long, slender, articulated 2-6 mm below the flowers; calyx 10-15 mm long in flower to 20 mm in fruit, densely stellate-pubescent, deeply divided, the lobes cordate and overlapping at base, acuminate; corolla rotate, without a dark center, the petals 14-18 mm long, pale yellow, pubescent on margin of claw, otherwise glabrous; staminal column ca. 3 mm long, glabrous, pallid, the filaments ca. 2 mm long, the anthers yellow; styles 6-9, pallid, glabrous, exceeding the androecium, stigmas maroon or pallid. Fruits 1 cm long (shorter than calyx), slightly wider, densely hirsute with both stellate and simple hairs; mericarps 6-9, 3-seeded, apically acuminate; seeds 2.6 mm long, muriculate. Chromosome number: 2n = 14.A
Ecología y Hábitat
It found in dry, open habitats. It flowers throughout the year.A
Tipo de vegetación
No especificadoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC