Botanical Name
- Anonaceae
----- Trees
or shrubs, often climbing and aromatic. Leaves
alternate, ex-stipulate, simple, entire. Flowers
2-, rarely 1-sexual. Sepals
3, free or connate, usually valvate. Petals
6, hypogynous, 2-seriate or the inner absent. Stamens
many, hypogynous; filaments short or wanting; anther-cells 2,
adnate on teh outside of the broad connective, distinct stigmas;
style short or wanting. Fruit
of dry or succulent, usually indehiscent carpels.
| Petals 2-seriate, valvate in bud,
subsimilar, or none. |
| Stamens many; anther-cells concealed
by overlapping connectives. |
| Ovaries many, 2-ovuled; penduncles
hooked. -------------------------
(1) ARTABOTRYS |
| Ovaries many, Ovules 1-2, basal. -------------------------------------
(2) POLYALTHIA |
| Petals valvate, thick and rigid, inner
similar but smaller. |
| Stamens many; anther-cells concealed
by the produced connectives. |
| Ovules solitary. Fruit fleshy, of
many connate carpels. -----------------
(3) ANONA |
| Petals valavate, inner largest, 3
outer small, similar to sepals. |
| Stamens often definite; anther-cells
not concealed by the overlapping connectives. |
| Ovaries indefinite. ----------------------------------------------------
(4) MILIUSA |
| Ovules definite. ------------------------------------------------------
(5) SACCOPETALUM |
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