Mitrephora diversifolia
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| In Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Mitrephora |
| Species: | M. diversifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Mitrephora diversifolia | |
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Mitrephora diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae and is native to Queensland, Ambon Island and New Guinea. It is a tree with egg-shaped leaves, the flowers with cream-coloured and mauve-pink petals, 70 to 85 stamens and 10 to 14 carpels. The fruit is egg-shaped containing up to 8 seeds.
Description[edit]
Mitrephora diversifolia is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 15 m (49 ft). Its leaves are egg-shaped, 80–300 mm (3.1–11.8 in) long, 30–90 mm (1.2–3.5 in) wide on a petiole 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long and have 9 to 11 pairs of secondary veins. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle up to 15 mm (0.59 in) long, the pedicel 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long. The sepals are 4 mm (0.16 in) long and densely hairy. Its outer petals cream-coloured, egg-shaped with the narower end towards the base, 18–22 mm (0.71–0.87 in) long and 13–15 mm (0.51–0.59 in) wide. The inner petals are 5 mm (0.20 in) long and 7 mm (0.28 in) wide, with a mauve-pink, hairy, spade-shaped or arrow-shaped blade. There are 70 to 85 stamens and 10 to 14 carpels each containing 10 ovules. Flowering mostly occurs between October and March, and fruit is egg-shaped, 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) long and 12–20 mm (0.47–0.79 in) wide, containing up to 8 seeds.[2]
Taxonomy[edit]
This species was first described in 1841 by Johan Baptist Spanoghe who gave it the name Unona ? diversifolia in the journal Linnaea.[3][4] In 1858, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel transferred the species to the genus Mitrephora as M. diversifolia. The specific epithet (diversifolia) means "unlike-" or "different-leaved".[5]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Mitrephora diversifolia grows in vine forest from the tip of Cape York Peninsula to the McIlwraith Range and on Ambon Island in Indonesia, and possibly also in New Guinea.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Mitrephora diversifolia". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ a b Jessup, L.W. "Mitrephore diversifolia". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "Unona ? diversifolia". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ Spanoghe, Johann B. (1841). "Prodromus Florae Timorensis". Linnaea : Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange. 15: 163. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ George, Alex; Sharr, Francis (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (4th ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 186. ISBN 9780958034180.