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Goniothalamus Latestigma
''Goniothalamus latestigma'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Myanmar and Thailand. Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer, the botanist who first species description, formally described the species, named it after its broad ( in Latin) stigmas. stigmas. Description It is a bush reaching 2.4–3 meters in height. Its membranous, oblong leaves are 14–27 by 4–8 centimeters, and come to an abrupt point at their tip. The leaves are hairless on their upper surface and lightly hairy on their underside. The leaves have minute translucent speckles and their margins are slightly wavy. Its leaves have 10–13 pairs of veins emanating from midribs. Its 0.7–1 centimeter long petiole (botany), petioles are covered in minute fine hairs and have a channel in their upper surface. Its solitary flowers are on 6 millimeters long pedicel (botany), pedicels that grow in Axillary bud, axillary positions. The pedicels are covered in fine hairs and have two narrow oblong bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer
Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer (9 July 1874 – 19 October 1950) was a botanist born in Bombay to European parents. He worked principally in the Indian Forest Service. Life Fischer was born in Bombay, India on 9 July 1874. Prior to university training, he was educated in Switzerland and England. From 1892 to 1895 he attended the Royal Indian Engineering College (also called Cooper's Hill College) where he studied forestry. His first professional posting in 1895 was in the Indian Forest Service in the Madras Presidency, a province of British India. In 1907 he served as a entomologist in Dehradun. From 1915 to 1917 he helped administrate the Madras Forest College (now called the Tamil Nadu Forest Department). From 1919-1920 he taught silviculture at the University of Oxford. From 1920 to 1923 he served as a conservator of forests in Madras. He retired from the Indian Forest Service in 1926. From 1925 to 1940 he served as an assistant for India at the Herbarium of the Royal Bota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |