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Annonaceae - Monodora Dunal

Description:

  • 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. 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. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien III,2
  • ROBSON, N.K.B. 1960. Annonaceae. Flora zambesiaca 1
  • THULIN, M. 1993. Annonaceae. Flora of Somalia 1
  • VAN SETTEN, A.K. & MAAS, P.J.M. 1990. Studies in Annonaceae XIV. Index to generic names of Annonaceae. Taxon 39
  • VERDCOURT, B. 1971. Flora of tropical East Africa. Annonaceae

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