Saurauia klemmei

Saurauia klemmei is a species of plant in the family Actinidiaceae. It is native to the Philippines.[1] Elmer Drew Merrill, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Wilhelm Klemme, a German forest officer, who collected the specimen Merrill examined from Luzon island in the Philippines.[2]

Saurauia klemmei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Actinidiaceae
Genus: Saurauia
Species:
S. klemmei
Binomial name
Saurauia klemmei

Description

It is a bush reaching 4 meters in height. Its oblong, papery leaves are 14-22 by 5-8 centimeters. The tips of the leaves come to a shallow point. The upper surface of the leaves are dark green, shiny and hairless. The lower surface is paler and also hairless, except for prominent bristles on the midrib. The leaves have 17 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs. Its densely bristled petioles are 1.5-4 centimeters long. Inflorescences are organized as cymes on scaly peduncles that emerge from the leaf axils, branches and the trunk. The flowers have both male and female reproductive structures. Its flowers have 5 sepals arranged in two rows. The two, smooth, oval shaped inner sepals are 7 by 5 millimeters. The three smaller outer sepals are oval-shaped and slightly bristly on their outer surface. The lobes of its corolla are oval-shaped, 7 by 5 millimeters and notched at their apex. Its flowers have up to 25 stamens with a 2.5 millimeter long filament, and a 2.5 millimeter long anther. Its flowers have 4-5 styles that are 6-6.5 millimeters long and fused for their lower 1-1.5 millimeters.[3]

Reproductive biology

The pollen of S. klemmei is shed as permanent tetrads.[4]

References
  1. "Saurauia klemmei Merr". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  2. Van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J.; Van Steenis, C.G.G.J. (1950). Malaysian Plant Collectors and Collections Being a Cyclopedia of Botanical Exploration in Malaysia and a Guide to the Concerned Literature up to the Year 1950. 1. 1. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff. p. 284.
  3. Merrill, E.D. (1914). "Dilleniaceae Novae". The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 9 (6): 517–530.
  4. 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.
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