- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›magnolias, nutmegs, and allies
- ›custard-apples
- ›Malmeoideae
- ›Malmeeae
- ›Pseudoxandra
Pseudoxandra williamsii
Pseudoxandra williamsii is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Peru. Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species using the basionym Cremastosperma williamsii, named it after Llewelyn W. Williams, the Welsh economic botanist, who collected the holotype specimen he examined.
From the article Pseudoxandra williamsii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It is a bush. Its shiny, brown, papery leaves are 16-20 by 4-5 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The mature leaves are hairless on their upper surfaces and lightly hairy on their lower surfaces. The leaves have 10-12 distinct, curved secondary veins emanating from the primary vein. Its petioles are 4-5 millimeters long. Each flower is on a short pedicel less than 1 millimeter long. Its flowers have 3 oval-shaped sepals that are 5 by 8 millimeters. The outer surface of the sepals is covered in dense white hairs. Its 6 petals are arranged in two rows of 3. The outer petals 11-12 by 9 millimeters and their outer surface is covered by dense white hairs. The inner petals are 6-7 by 5-6 millimeters and concave. The inner petals are smooth on their outer surface except for a hairy patch running from the base to the tip. It has numerous stamens that are 3.5-4 millimeters long.
Reproductive biology. The pollen of P. williamsii is shed as permanent tetrads.
== References ==
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pseudoxandra williamsii in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 442700.