Anoda polygyna Fryxell
Descripción
Erect little branched herbs or subshrubs, the stems, petioles, and pedicels densely yellowish tomentose (with glandular hairs interspersed). Leaf blades 3-6 cm long, angularly ovate to hastately 3-lobed, entire, densely stellate- pubescent above and beneath, sometimes red-margined; petioles subequal to the blades. Inflorescence a terminal more or less leafless raceme; pedicels 2-5.5 cm long; calyx 9-11 mm long (not accrescent), densely yellowish tomentose with glandular hairs interspersed, the lobes 1-veined; corolla without a dark center, the petals 15-23 mm long, pink or pale lavender; staminal column ca. 5 mm long, pallid, prominently hirsute, the filaments 3-4 mm long; styles 17-20, pallid, the stigmas reddish. Fruits 8-9 mm in diameter, oblate, densely hirsute; mericarps 17-20, dorsally spurred (the spurs 0.5-1 mm long), the lateral walls evanescent; seeds 3.5 mm long, glabrous, completely enclosed in persistent reticulate endocarp. Chromosome number unknown. A
Ecología y Hábitat
Occurs at intermediate elevations, apparently in deciduous forest.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva bajaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC