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Luehea (Luehea speciosa)

Description

They are trees that reach a size of 5-35 m high young branches and flower branches with indumento red-gold, a mixture of trichomes dendroid, shortly stellate.The oblong-obovate leaves (oblong-ovate), 9.5-22 cm long and 5.5-14 cm wide, the apex shortly acuminate, the base rounded, obtuse or subcorded, generally asymmetric, margin serrated at least distally, Beam with scattered starry trichomes to glabrescent, back with whitish garments of long-armed star trichomes on a lower layer of arachnoid trichomes, lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, basal pair extending 3/4 the leaf length Petioles 0.7-1.1 cm long, reddish brown, Dense and obliquely dendroid and starred with short arms on a persistent furfuraceous layer. The inflorescence with 1 or 2 flowers to many, with bracteolas involucral 9-10, 17-22 (-25) mm long, free to the base, the widely spatulated petals , 30-38 mm long and 12-20 mm Wide, glabrous except for the base shortly white-hairy, white; Staminodes 8-9 mm long,connate 1 / 4-2 / --3 of its length, stamens 15-20 mm long, very connate at the base; Ovary not lobed or very slightly lobed. The fruits are elliptic, 25-45 mm long and 15-23 mm wide, sometimes only slightly angulated, not furrowed, apical dehiscence ca 1/2 of its length, With reddish starry trichomes with short, long, furfuraceous arms.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Malvales

            • Family: Malvaceae

              • Genus: Luehea