Goniothalamus latestigma
species of plant
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 formally described the species, named it after its broad (latus in Latin) 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 petioles are covered in minute fine hairs and have a channel in their upper surface. Its solitary flowers are on 6 millimeters long pedicels that grow in axillary positions.
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