Biology:Annona angustifolia

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Annona angustifolia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Annona
Species:
A. angustifolia
Binomial name
Annona angustifolia
Huber

Annona angustifolia is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Brazil .[1] Jacques Huber, the Swiss-Brazilian botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its narrow (angustus in Latin) leaves (folium in Latin).[2][3]

Description

It is a bush with slender branches. Its leaves are arranged in two opposite rows on the branches. Its narrow, smooth, membranous leaves are 6-12 centimeter by 1.2-1.5 centimeters. Its solitary flowers are on 1 centimeter long pedicels that have a small bracteole about half way up from their base. Its triangular sepals are 2 by 3 millimeters, come to a tapering point at their tips, and are covered in short rust-colored hairs. Its thick exterior petals are round, 1.5 by 1.5 centimeters, concave, and have rust-colored hairs on their inner surface. Its inner petals are thinner, come to a sharp point at their tips and are 8 millimeters long. Its flowers have numerous stamens with filaments that are about 0.5 millimeters long, and 1.5 millimeter long, yellow anthers. The tissue connecting the lobes of the anther forms a cap like structure at its top. Its flowers have numerous ovaries with silky yellow styles and white stigmas.[3]

Reproductive biology

The pollen of Annona angustifolia is shed as permanent tetrads.[4]

Distribution and habitat

It grows in forested areas.[3]

References

  1. "Annona angustifolia Huber". The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d.. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:14224-2. 
  2. Stearn, William (2004). Botanical Latin. Portland, Ore. Newton Abbot: Timber Press David & Charles. ISBN 9780881926279. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Huber, J. (1909). "Materiaes para a Flora Amazonica VII. Plantae Duckeanae Austro-guyanenses" (in Portuguese, Latin). Boletim do Museu Goeldi (Museu Paraense) de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 5: 294-436. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98156. 
  4. Walker, James W. (1971). "Pollen Morphology, Phytogeography, and Phylogeny of the Annonaceae". Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 202: 1-130. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q15399910 entry