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Saurauia latibractea

Saurauia latibractea
Photo: The herbarium specimen is attributed to Adolph D.E. Elmer, the photograph is unattributed except to note that it was pro, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Actinidiaceae (Actinidi family)
Native range
Philippines
Climate
wet tropical

About

Saurauia latibractea is a species of plant in the family Actindiaceae. It is native to The Philippines. Jacques Denys Choisy, the Swiss botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its broad (latus in Latin) bracts. In Maranao it is called maragaoaq or tamiagau.

Other Saurauia plants

Saurauia adenodonta · Saurauia aequatoriensis · Saurauia aguaricana · Saurauia andreana · Saurauia avellana · Saurauia bogoriensis · Saurauia bracteosa · Saurauia cauliflora · Saurauia clementis · Saurauia copelandii · Saurauia crassisepala · Saurauia elegans

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saurauia latibractea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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