Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing or scrambling, with simple hairs or glabrous; young shoots frequently blackening and becoming brittle on drying
Leaves
petiolate, often ± elliptic, thin
Inflorescences
paired or few-flowered cymes, terminal or extra-axillary or in axils of fallen leaves, or flowers solitary
Flowers
bisexual, pedicellate, bracteolate; bracteole single, often large and leafy, usually amplexicaul, persistent
Sepals
3, valvate, free, much shorter than petals
Petals
6, valvate, in 2 whorls, all connate at base, inner smaller than outer, clawed, usually with crisped or undulate margins, connivent at apex until anthesis
Stamens
many, without filaments; anthers oblong or cuneiform to orbicular, with extrorse dehiscence; connective prolongation thickened
Carpels
several, united, 1-locular, globose or conical, with parietal placentation; ovules numerous; stigmas sessile, radiating
Fruit
syncarpous, a coriaceous or ligneous berry, globose to ellipsoid or obovoid, stipitate, many-seeded; pericarp leathery or woody
Seeds
irregularly arranged, shining; aril 0
x = 8
Nomenclature:
Monodora
Dunal
Dunal: 34, 79 (1817)
Endlicher: 834 (1839)
Bentham: 473 (1862)
Oliver: 37 (1868)
Prantl: 38 (1891)
Engler & Diels: 84 (1901)
Robson: 145 (1960)
Le Thomas: 338 (1969)
Verdcourt: 124 (1971)
Codd: t. 1870 (1982)
Van Setten & Maas: 683 (1990)
Kessler: 128 (1993)
Thulin: 19 (1993)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species ± 15, confined to tropical Africa
Southern Africa
: Species 1:
Monodora junodii
Engl. & Diels, Northern Province and KwaZulu-Natal
References:
BENTHAM, G. 1862. On African
Anonaceae
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The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
23
CODD, L.E. 1982.
Monodora junodii
.
Flowering Plants of Africa
47
DUNAL, M.F. 1817.
Monographie de la famille des Anonacées
. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
ENDLICHER, S.L. 1839.
Anonaceae
.
Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita
2. Beck, Vienna
ENGLER, A. & DIELS, L. 1901.
Annonaceae
. In A. Engler,
Monographien afrikanischer Pflanzenfamilien und Gattungen
6. Engelmann, Leipzig
KESSLER, P.J. A.1993.
Annonaceae
. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich,
The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons
2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
LE THOMAS, A. 1969.
Annonaceae
.
Flore du Gabon
16
OLIVER, D. 1868.
Anonaceae
.
Flora of tropical Africa
1
PRANTL, K. 1891.
Anonaceae
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Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien
III,2
VAN SETTEN, A.K. & MAAS, P.J.M. 1990. Studies in
Annonaceae
XIV. Index to generic names of
Annonaceae
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Taxon
39
VERDCOURT, B. 1971.
Flora of tropical East Africa
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Annonaceae
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