Mitrephora macclurei

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Mitrephora macclurei
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Photograph of the leaves of Mitrephora macclurei. [1]
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Mitrephora
Species:
M. macclurei
Binomial name
Mitrephora macclurei
Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders

Mitrephora macclurei is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to China, Laos and Vietnam. [2] Aruna Weerasooriya and Richard Saunders, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after Floyd Alonzo McClure of Lingnan University (formerly Canton Christian College), who collected the holotype specimen that they examined. [3]

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Description

It is a tree reaching 7–10 meters in height. Its branches have lenticels. Its leathery, lance-shaped leaves are 8-14 by 3–4.5 centimeters with shallowly pointed bases and pointed tips. The upper side of the leaves are glossy and hairless, while the undersides are covered in sparse, fine hairs. The leaves have 7-9 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs. Its petioles are 6–8.5 by 1.4-2 millimeters and covered in sparse, fine hairs. The flowers occur in groups of 3 or fewer on a rachis positioned opposite leaves. Flowers are attached to the rachis by fleshy, densely hairy pedicels that are 12-20 by 1.1-1.5 millimeters. The pedicels have an oval, basal bract that is 3.5 by 2.5 millimeters, and another upper bract that is 1.5-2.5 by 2-4 millimeters. Its flowers have 3 oval sepals that are 3-4 by 3-3.5 millimeters. The sepals are covered in dense, velvety, brown hairs on their outer surface and sparse hairs on their inner surface. Its 6 petals are arranged in two rows of 3. The outer petals are initially white, turning yellow at maturity. The elliptical to oval, outer petals are 1.8-2.5 by 1.1-2.0 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The outer petals are covered in sparse, brown, fine hairs inside and out. The purple inner petals are 11-13 by 6.5-8.5 millimeters with a basal claw. The inner petals have sparse, fine hairs on their outer surface. The inner surface of inner petals is covered in hairs that become longer at the tip. Its flowers have more than 100 yellow stamen that are 1.5-1.9 by 0.7-0.9 millimeters. Its flowers have 7-8 carpels that are 2-2.5 by 0.9 millimeters. The carpels have 8-10 ovules. Its fruit occur in clusters of up to 6 on woody pedicels that are 13 by 4 millimeters and covered in sparse, fine hairs. The smooth, sparsely hairy, oval fruit are 3.8 by 2.5 centimeters. The fruit are attached to the pedicel by stipes that are 14-18 by 3.5-4 millimeters and covered in sparse, brown, fine hairs. Each fruit has 4-8 oval, brown, seeds that are 1.2 by 1.0 centimeters. [4] [5]

Reproductive biology

The pollen of M. macclurei is shed as permanent tetrads. [6]

Habitat and distribution

It has been observed growing in forests, often near rivers, with limestone soil at elevations of 800 meters. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mitrephora macclurei Weeras. & R.M.K. Saunders". Tropicos. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. n.d. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Mitrephora macclurei Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ McClure, F.A. (1925). "Some Observations of a Plant Collector on the Island of Hainan". The Ohio Journal of Science. 25 (3): 114–118. hdl:1811/2267.
  4. ↑ Weerasooriya, Aruna D.; Saunders, Richard M. K. (2005). "The Genus Mitrephora (Annonaceae) in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam". Systematic Botany. 30 (2): 248–262. doi:10.1600/0363644054223602. ISSN   0363-6445.
  5. 1 2 Weerasooriya, Aruna D.; Saunders, Richard M. K. (2010). "Monograph of Mitrephora (Annonaceae)". Systematic Botany Monographs. 90: 1–197. JSTOR   41059228.
  6. ↑ Gan, Yangying; Liu, Yong; Xu, Fengxia (2015). "Pollen morphology of selected species from Annonaceae". Grana. 54 (4): 271–281. doi:10.1080/00173134.2015.1096302. ISSN   0017-3134.
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