e-Key v3 - Ke<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1699428833435_8522431705674736" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>y to Annon<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1699428833435_48328536231438934" data-jodit_selection_marker="end" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>aceae Genera
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  • Carpels united in fruit, forming a fleshy or hard-shelled syncarp
 002
b
  • Carpels free or solitary in fruit, if more than 1 then forming a cluster of apparently separate fruits
 002
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  • Fruits fleshy, orange when mature
  • Petals in 2 equal whorls
  • Hairs, if present, stellate and simple
 Annona
b
  • Fruits dry and hard-shelled, blackish when mature
  • Petals very unequal, united in lower parts
  • Hairs absent or simple
 Monodora
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  • Hairs stellate and simple
 Uvaria
b
  • Hairs simple or absent
 002
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  • Climbers, rarely small trees, with leaf-opposed, laterally compressed hooks
 Artabotrys
b
  • Habit various but leaf-opposed hooks absent
 002
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  • Climbing or scrambling plants
 002
b
  • Erect trees or shrubs
 002
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  • Branches with prominent lenticels, red or blackish
  • Bracteoles small, ovate-oblong
 Monanthotaxis
b
  • Branches without lenticels
  • Bracteoles large, foliaceous and orbicular to broadly ovate with amplexicaul base
 Friesodielsia
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  • Fruits splitting open when ripe, stipitate
  • Flowers greenish
  • Flower bud extended into a straight or curved beak
  • Petals long-acuminate from an ovate base
 Xylopia
b
  • Fruits never splitting open, sessile
  • Flowers cream, white or yellow
  • Flower bud obtuse to subacute
  • Petals transversely folded in bud
 Hexalobus

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