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Fusaea Decurrens
''Fusaea decurrens'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Peru. Robert Elias Fries. The Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after wings of the leaves that run down ( in Latin) the stem of the leaf. Description It is a tree reaching 7 meters in height. Its petioles are 5-6 millimeters long. Its mature leaves are hairless and densely covered in warty growths and shiny on their upper surfaces. The oblong leaves are 18-22 by 4–6.5 centimeters and come to an abrupt 1.5 centimeter-long point at their tip. The leaves narrow at their base to form long wings that run down the petioles. The leaves have 16-18 secondary veins emanating from both sides of their midribs. The secondary veins emerge at near 90° angles from the midribs, but curve to join one another 3-5 millimeters from the leaf margin. Its inflorescences have 2-3 green to yellow flowers. The flowers are on pedicels that are 1.5-2 millimeters long. The pedicels ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Elias Fries
(Klas) Robert Elias Fries (11 July 1876, Uppsala – 29 January 1966, Stockholm), the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913) and grandson of Elias Magnus Fries(1794–1878) and an expert on mushrooms. A Swedish botanist who was a member of the British Mycological Society and involved with The Botanical Museum (UPS), Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Natural History Museum (BM), the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR), Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K),the Swedish Museum of Natural History Department of Phanerogamic Botany (S) and the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution (US). A collector of plants from 1901 through 1923 in Europe: Sweden; Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tropical South America: Bolivia; Temperate South America: Argentina. He sometimes worked with his father and his brother Thore Christian Elias Fries (1886–1931). He was part of the Swedish 1901–190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |