Mitrephora petelotii

Mitrephora petelotii is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Vietnam.[1] Aruna Weerasooriya and Richard Saunders, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it in honor of the French botanist Paul Alfred Pételot, who collected the holotype specimen that they examined.[2]

Mitrephora petelotii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Mitrephora
Species:
M. petelotii
Binomial name
Mitrephora petelotii
Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders

Description

It is a tree reaching 8 meters in height. Its branches have lenticels. Its leathery, oval-shaped leaves are 6-12.5 by 2-4.5 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are smooth on their upper surfaces, while their undersides are slightly hairy. Its petioles are 3-7.5 millimeters long. Its flowers are arranged in groups of 3 or fewer on a rachis opposite the leaves. Each flower is on a fleshy, slightly hairy pedicel 10.5-17.5 millimeters long. Its flowers have 3, green or brown, oval-shaped sepals that are 2-3 by 2-3 millimeters. The outside of the sepals are densely hairy, while their inner surfaces are smooth. Its 6 petals are arranged in two rows of 3. The oval-shaped outer petals are 12-17 by 13-16.5 millimeters and come to a point at their tip. Both surfaces of the outer petals are slightly hairy. The inner petals are 8.5-10.5 by 5.5-8.5 millimeters. The outside surface of the inner petals is slightly hairy while the tip of the inner surface has long hairs. It has numerous stamens.[3]

Reproductive biology

The pollen of M. petelotii is shed as permanent tetrads.[3]

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References
  1. "Mitrephora petelotii Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  2. "Pételot, Paul Alfred (1885c.1940)". Global Plants. ITHAKA. n.d. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  3. 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.


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