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Mallotus Floribundus
''Mallotus floribundus'' is a tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, in the Stylanthus section, native to Southeast Asia, Wallaceae, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Description The species grows a small tree, up to 18m, occasionally 25m, tall. It has a mostly straight trunk with a many branching bush crown. Its bark can occur as smooth to fissured, with lenticels. The leaves are (sometimes Glossary of leaf morphology#Leaf and leaflet shapes, ovate) to broadly ovate to orbicular, with an irregular margin (sometimes slightly Glossary of leaf morphology#Edge, dentate to crenate. The staminate (male) flowers are white to yellowish, while the pistillate (female) flowers are pale green to whitish. Features used to distinguish the species include: the shape of the leaf blade (see above), their length-width ratio (0.7-1.9), the shape of the margins, an acute to acuminate apex, and two or three conspicuously large hair tufts at the petiole insertion of the lower surface (except in the Solo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Ludwig Blume
Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796, Braunschweig – 3 February 1862, Leiden) was a German-Dutch botanist. He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium (state herbarium) at Leiden. His name is sometimes given in the Dutch language form Karel Lodewijk Blume, but the original German spelling is the one most widely used in botanical texts: even then there is confusion, as he is sometimes referred to as K.L. Blume (from Karl). He carried out extensive studies of the flora of southern Asia, particularly in Java, then a colony of the Netherlands. From 1823 to 1826 Blume was Deputy Director of Agriculture at the botanic garden in Bogor (Buitenzorg) in Java. In 1827 he became correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands. In 1855, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |