Biology:Hexalobus bussei
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Hexalobus |
| Species: | H. bussei
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| Binomial name | |
| Hexalobus bussei Diels
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Hexalobus megalophyllus Engl. & Diels | |
Hexalobus bussei is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cameroon.[2] Ludwig Diels, the German botanist who first formally described the species, named it after another German botanist, Walter Busse, who collected the sample that Diels examined.[3]
Description
It is a tree reaching 20-30 meters in height. Its trunk has brown to black, smooth bark that peels in flakes. Its young branches have light to dark brown bark and are covered in hairs. Its petioles are 1-7 by 2.5-7 millimeters in diameter and covered in sparse brown hair. Its oblong to oval, leathery leaves are 15.5-36 by 5.5-10.5 centimeters with tapering tips and heart-shaped bases. The glossy, grey hairless upper surfaces of the leaves have a slightly blistered or puckered appearance while the lower surfaces are hairless or covered in sparse brown hairs. The leaves have 12-17 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs at angles of 55°-85°. Its solitary (sometimes 2), fragrant flowers are born pedicels that are 1-1.2 centimeters long. The pedicels have several bracts and are covered in dense rust-colored hairs. Its 3 oval, leathery sepals are 1.6-2 by 1.1-1.4 centimeters and densely covered in silky cream-colored to brown hairs. Its flowers have 6 petals that are fused at the base to form a 6-lobed corolla that is yellow with a purple base. The lance-shaped lobes are 3-5 millimeters long with rounded tips. The corollas are covered with white hairs. Its flowers have numerous oblong stamen that are 6.5-8 by 1.5 millimeters. The connective tissue between the lobes of the anther extends upward to form a broad, oblique, slanting cap. Its flowers have 3-7 densely hairy carpels that are 4.5-5 by 1-1.3 millimeters. Its horizontally positioned stigma are 3-4.6by 1-4 millimeters. Its orange, ridged, wrinkled, elliptical fruit occur in groups of 2-4, are 5.3-7.8 by 4 centimeters, and sparsely covered in rust-colored hairs. The fruit have 7-16, shiny, orange to brown, flattened, elliptical to oval seeds that are 2.3-2.8 by 1.7-1.9 by 8-10 millimeters.[4][5]
Reproductive biology
The pollen of H. bussei is shed as permanent tetrads.[6]
Habitat and distribution
It has been observed growing in tropical lowland rain forests at elevations of 0 to 200 meters.[5]
References
- ↑ Cosiaux, A.; Couvreur, T.L.P.; Erkens, R.H.J. (2019). "Hexalobus bussei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T132520196A132520522. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T132520196A132520522.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/132520196/132520522. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ "Hexalobus bussei Diels". The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d.. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:73703-1.
- ↑ Busse, Walter Carl Otto (1865-1933). ITHAKA. n.d.. https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000051684. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
- ↑ Diels, L (1907). "Anonaceae africanae" (in Latin, German). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 39: 469–486. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/701.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Botermans, Marleen; Sosef, Marc S. M.; Chatrou, Lars W.; Couvreur, Thomas L. P. (2011). "Revision of the African Genus Hexalobus (Annonaceae)". Systematic Botany 36 (1): 33–48. doi:10.1600/036364411X553108. ISSN 0363-6445.
- ↑ Couvreur, Thomas L. P.; Botermans, Marleen; van Heuven, Bertie Joan; van der Ham, Raymond W. J. M. (2008). "Pollen morphology within the Monodora clade, a diverse group of five African Annonaceae genera". Grana 47 (3): 185–210. doi:10.1080/00173130802256913. ISSN 0017-3134.
Wikidata ☰ Q17138261 entry
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