Saurauia clementis


Saurauia clementis is a species of flowering plant in the family Actinidiaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Elmer Drew Merrill, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Mary Strong Clemens, the American botanist who collected the specimen that he examined.

Description

It is a bush or small tree. Its membranous leaves are by and their tips come to a shallow point. The leaves are dark on their upper side, paler below, and bristly on both surfaces. The leaves have 7–8 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs. The leaf margins have bristly serrations. Its densely bristly petioles are long. Inflorescences are axillary cymes with a few flowers organized on densely bristly peduncles in length.
Its flowers have 5 oval-shaped, overlapping sepals, long. The exposed parts of the outer surface of the sepals have dark purple bristles that are long. The flowers have corollas that are long with 5 lobes; each lobe is notched at the top. Its flowers have 20 stamens that are long. Each flower has a 3-chambered ovary. Each ovary contains numerous ovules. Its flowers have 3 styles that are long and fused at their base for the last.

Reproductive biology

The pollen of S. clementis is shed as permanent tetrads.