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Annonaceae

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Book cover Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 2))

Abstract

Trees, shrubs, rarely subshrubs, or climbers. Indumentum, if present, simple, stellate or lepidote. Leaves alternate, distichous, very rarely spirally arranged (Tetrameranthus), entire, thin to coriaceous, craspedo- or brochidodromous; stipules absent. Flowers terminal, axillary or supraaxillary, rami- or cauliflorous, rarely on underground suckers, bisexual or less often unisexual, solitary, paired or in few- to many-flowered fascicles, regular, very often fleshy or brittle; bracts often present. Sepals (2−)3(−4), valvate or imbricate in bud, free or connate, at least at the base. Petals 3–6(−12), usually either in 2 whorls of 3 (or 2 or 4) or in a single whorl of 3, 4 or 6, valvate or imbricate in bud, free or more or less connate at the base, usually alternating with the sepals. Stamens numerous to very numerous and apparently spirally arranged or 3–15 and whorled. Staminodes present in a few genera; anthers linear, sometimes rounded with extrorse, rarely lateral dehiscence, occasionally transversely septate; connective mostly with a truncate dilated apex, the latter sometimes conical, pyramidal or missing; filaments short and free or rarely longer and united into a tube.

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    Jens G. Rohwer

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Kessler, P.J.A. (1993). Annonaceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J.G., Bittrich, V. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02899-5_9

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