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Annonaceae - Artabotrys R.Br.

Description:

  • Shrubs or rarely small trees, usually climbing or scrambling, with simple hairs
  • Leaves petiolate, often ± elliptic, coriaceous
  • Inflorescences condensed cymes or flowers solitary, supra-axillary
  • Flowers bisexual, pedicellate, on flattened, hooked peduncles by which plants are supported; bracts and bracteoles small, often caducous
  • Sepals 3, valvate, equal to petals or shorter, free or ± connate at base, tomentose
  • Petals 6, free, valvate, in 2 whorls, subequal, spoon-shaped, concave and connivent at base
  • Stamens many; filaments oblong or cuneate, with or without appendages; connective with a truncate dilated apex; anther thecae dorsal or lateral
  • Carpels few or many, free, ovoid or ellipsoid; ovules 2, basal; style oblong or columnar; stigma fleshy
  • Monocarps indehiscent, succulent, cylindrical or ellipsoid, sessile, sometimes large and pear-shaped, 1- or 2-seeded
  • Seeds vertical, collateral; aril 0
  • x = 8 (aneuploids)

Nomenclature:

  • Artabotrys R.Br.
    • Brown: t. 423 (1820)
    • Endlicher: 833 (1839)
    • Bentham: 466 (1862)
    • Oliver: 27 (1868)
    • Hooker & Thomson: 53 (1872)
    • Prantl: 36 (1891)
    • Engler & Diels: 70 (1901)
    • Robson: 129 (1960)
    • Paiva: 88 (1966)
    • Le Thomas: 128 (1969)
    • Verdcourt: 56 (1971)
    • Van Setten & Maas: 678 (1990)
    • Kessler: 117 (1993)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 100, tropics and subtropics of Old World
  • Southern Africa: Species 2, Botswana, Northern Province and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BENTHAM, G. 1862. On African Anonaceae. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23
  • BROWN, R. 1820. Artabotrys. Botanical Register 5
  • 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
  • HOOKER, J.D. & THOMSON, Th. 1872. Anonaceae. Flora of British India 1. Lovell Reeve & Co., London
  • 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
  • PAIVA, J.A.R. 1966. Revisão das Annonaceae de Angola. Memórias da Sociedade Broteriana 19
  • PRANTL, K. 1891. Anonaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien III,2
  • ROBSON, N.K.B. 1960. Annonaceae. Flora zambesiaca 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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