Pubescence consisting of stellate trichomes from an abaxial leaf blade surface of Couratari stellata. Photo by C. A. Gracie.

• Title

  Pubescence consisting of stellate trichomes from an abaxial leaf blade surface of Couratari stellata. Photo by C. A. Gracie.

• Creator(s)

  C. A. Gracie

• Publisher

  NYBG

• Description

  Pubescence consisting of a stellate trichome from an abaxial leaf blade surface of Couratari stellata based on Mori et al. 19401 from Km 41 (Reserve 1501) of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), Amazonas, Brazil. From a herbarium sheet. The trichome has a very faint "plus-shaped" suture in the middle suggesting that this kind of trichome may have evolved from simple trichomes to form a multicellular trichome but this hypothesis needs to be confirmed. SEM from a herbarium sheet.

• Specimens

  Pending, S. A. Mori 19401, Couratari stellata A.C.Sm., Lecythidaceae (245.0), Magnoliophyta; South America, Brazil, Amazonas

• Taxonomy

  Couratari stellata A.C.Sm.

• Copyright Statement

  Copyright 2011 Carol Ann Gracie. All rights reserved.

• Image Type

  SEM

• Subject Part

  Leaf

• Thesaurus

  Trichome

• Continent

  South America

• Country

  Brazil