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The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas [3] commonly known as the custard apple family [4] [3] or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, [ 5 ] it is the largest family in the Magnoliales .
(E) Floral diagram of Friesodielsia. (F) Floral diagram of Dasymaschalon. Colors are used to differentiate floral organs; blue, sepal; green, outer petal; purple, inner petal; gray, stamen; pink, carpel. The ranks and total numbers of stamens and carpels are artificial in (E,F), with six/three lines of stamens and carpels shown at the corners ...
Polyalthia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. There are approximately 90 species distributed from Africa to Asia and the Pacific. [1] These are trees and shrubs. The flower has six petals in two whorls, the inner petals curving inward over the centre. [1]
Annona or Anona (from Taíno annon) is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. It is the second largest genus in the family after Guatteria , [ 3 ] containing approximately 166 [ 4 ] species of mostly Neotropical and Afrotropical trees and shrubs .
Cremastosperma species are small understory trees with typical Annonaceae floral morphology (sepals and petals in whorls of three; indefinite numbers of spirally arranged stamens and carpels) bearing a resemblance to various other Neotropical genera with apocarpous, single-seeded, stipitate fruits (such as Guatteria). The most useful character ...
The Magnoliales include six families: Annonaceae (custard apple family, over 2000 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas; mostly tropical but some temperate); Degeneriaceae (two species of trees found on Pacific islands)
Annonoideae [1] is a subfamily of plants in the family Annonaceae, with genera distributed in tropical areas world-wide. The family and this subfamily are based on the type genus Annona . Tribes and genera
Annona squamosa is a small, well-branched tree or shrub [7] from the family Annonaceae that bears edible fruits called sugar apples or sweetsops. [8] It tolerates a tropical lowland climate better than its relatives Annona reticulata and Annona cherimola [6] (whose fruits often share the same name) [3] helping make it the most widely cultivated of these species. [9]