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Xylopia Densiflora
''Xylopia densiflora'' is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Peru. Robert Elias Fries, the botanist who first species description, formally described the species, named it after its dense ( in Latin) clusters of flowers. Description It is a tree reaching 20 meters in height. The young branches are covered in coarse hairs that lay flat. Its lance-shaped, papery leaves are 7-10 by 2-2.5 centimeters. The leaves have gradually pointed bases and gradually narrowing tips. The leaves are hairless on their upper surfaces, and have long soft hairs that lay flat on their lower surfaces. Its petiole (botany), petioles are 5-6 millimeters long. It has numerous densely clustered flowers. Its flowers have 3 oval sepals that have silky hairs on their outer surface. The sepals are 2-2.5 millimeters long. Its flower buds are shaped like rounded triangles. Its 6 petals are arranged in two rows of 3. The oblong, outer petals are 8-10 millimeters long and covered in grey, s ... [...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] |