Saurauia clementis
Saurauia clementis is a species of flowering plant in the family Actinidiaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines.[1] Elmer Drew Merrill, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Mary Strong Clemens, the American botanist who collected the specimen that he examined.[2]
| Saurauia clementis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Actinidiaceae |
| Genus: | Saurauia |
| Species: | S. clementis |
| Binomial name | |
| Saurauia clementis | |
Description
It is a bush or small tree. Its membranous leaves are 10-16 by 4-7 centimeters and their tips come to a shallow point. The leaves are dark on their upper side, paler below, and bristly on both surfaces. The leaves have 7-8 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs. The leaf margins have bristly serrations. Its densely bristly petioles are 1 millimeters long. Inflorescences are axillary cymes with a few flowers organized on densely bristly peduncles 4-8 centimeters in length. Its flowers have 5 oval-shaped, overlapping sepals, 8 millimeters long. The exposed parts of the outer surface of the sepals have dark purple bristles that are 3 millimeters long. The flowers have corollas that are 10 millimeters long with 5 lobes; each lobe is notched at the top. Its flowers have 20 stamens that are 3 millimeters long. Each flower has a 3-chambered ovary. Each ovary contains numerous ovules. Its flowers have 3 styles that are 6 millimeters long and fused at their base for the last 1 millimeters.[2]
Reproductive biology
The pollen of S. clementis is shed as permanent tetrads.[3]
References
- "Saurauia clementis Merr". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- Merrill, Elmer D. (1906). "New or Noteworthy Philippine Plants, V." The Philippine Journal of Science. 1 (supplement 3): 169–246.
- Jagudilla-Bulalacao, L (1997) Pollen Flora of the Philippines, Volume 1, Taguig, Metro Manila: Department of Science and Technology, Special Projects Unit, Technology Application and Promotion Institute.