Cananga brandisiana
species of plant
Cananga brandisiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre, the French botanist who first formally described the species, using the basionym Unona brandisiana, named it in honor of Sir Dietrich Brandis, the German botanist for whom Pierre worked in the Indian Forest Service (then called the Imperial Forestry Service) in Calcutta.
Description
It is a tree reaching 25 meters in height. Its trunk has grey bark. Its long branches have a round cross-section and are covered in woolly hairs when young, but are hairless when mature. Its petioles are 12–20 mm long and covered in woolly hairs. Its hairless, elliptical leaves are 8–16 by 7–11 cm. One to eight fragrant flowers are on peduncles that are 10–20 mm long. Subtending the peduncles are oval bracts that are 1.5-2.0 by 2.0 cm and covered in woolly hairs.
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