''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to

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Description

Trees or shrubs with pale straw coloured twigs. Leaves membraneous and with prominent veins. Flowers axillary, medium to large. Sepals 3, valvate, connate at base. Petals 6, valvate in two series, tapering gradually from a broad base upward and diverging, densely tomentose or sericeous-tomentose. The inner petals are slightly shorted in length with a warted patch at base inside. Stamens numerous with flat-topped slightly oblique connective tissue, concealing the anther lobes with viewed from above. Torus convex. Ovaries 2 to 5 with several ovules in two rows. Stigma discoid, sessile. Carpels thick-walled, sessile or sub-sessile. ''Meiogyne'' is different from ''

Cyathocalyx ''Cyathocalyx'' is a small genus with about 22 species distributed from southern India, Sri Lanka, through Malaysia, Indomalayan islands and reaches as far as Fiji in the South Pacific. The salient features of the genus includes- monopodial tre ...

'' in several ways. The leaf texture is different. Flowers are axillary and not extra-axillary or leaf-opposed. Arrangement of the petals is diverging from a broad base and not clawed and constricted and the base is not adpressed over the stamens. The warted base of the inner petal is peculiar. The stamens and stigmas are similar to ''Cyathocalyx''. ''Meiogyne'' is similar to '' Polyalthia'' in its spreading petals and similarity of stamens, but the large number of seeds and sessile, discoid stigma are distinguishing features.

Species

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'' includes the following 33 species: * '' Meiogyne amicorum'' * '' Meiogyne amygdalina'' * ''

Meiogyne anomalocarpa ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

'' * '' Meiogyne baillonii'' * ''

Meiogyne beccarii ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne bidwillii ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne caudata ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne chiangraiensis ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

'' * '' Meiogyne cylindrocarpa'' * ''

Meiogyne dumetosa ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne gardneri ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne glabra ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne habrotricha ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne heteropetala ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne hirsuta ''Meiogyne hirsuta'' is a plant in the family Annonaceae endemic to the Wet Tropics of Queensland in Australia. It is known from only a small number of collections from three widely separated locations in the Wet Tropics, namely Cedar Bay near ...

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Meiogyne insularis ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne kanthanensis ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne laddiana ''Meiogyne laddiana'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae, first described by Albert Charles Smith in 1936 as ''Polyalthia laddiana''. It is endemic to Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), o ...

'' * '' Meiogyne lecardii'' * ''

Meiogyne leptoneura ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale ...

'' * '' Meiogyne maxiflora'' * '' Meiogyne microflora'' * '' Meiogyne mindorensis'' * '' Meiogyne monosperma'' * ''

Meiogyne oligocarpa ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale ...

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Meiogyne pannosa ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale str ...

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Meiogyne papuana ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale ...

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Meiogyne punctulata ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale ...

'' * '' Meiogyne ramarowii'' * '' Meiogyne stenopetala'' * '' Meiogyne trichocarpa'' * ''

Meiogyne verrucosa ''Meiogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern India and Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees or shrubs with pale ...

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Meiogyne virgata ''Meiogyne virgata'' is an Asian tree species in the family Annonaceae and tribe Miliuseae. Originally described in 1825 as ''Unona virgata'', it was later placed as the type species of the genus ''Meiogyne'' by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel ...

'' - type species ( Indochina, western Malesia including the Philippines)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5222129 Annonaceae genera Taxa named by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel