''Meiogyne'' is a

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of flowering plants with about 33 species belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is native from southwestern

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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 ''Polyalthia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. There are approximately 90 species distributed from Africa to Asia and the Pacific.

'' 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 bidwillii'' * '' Meiogyne caudata'' * '' Meiogyne chiangraiensis'' * '' Meiogyne cylindrocarpa'' * '' Meiogyne dumetosa'' * '' Meiogyne gardneri'' * '' Meiogyne glabra'' * '' Meiogyne habrotricha'' * '' Meiogyne heteropetala'' * '' Meiogyne hirsuta'' * ''

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 ...

'' * ''

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 ...

'' * '' Meiogyne laddiana'' * '' Meiogyne lecardii'' * '' Meiogyne leptoneura'' * '' Meiogyne maxiflora'' * ''

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

'' * '' 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 Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochina to Australia, including Fiji and New Caledonia. Description Trees ...

'' * ''

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 ...

'' * '' Meiogyne papuana'' * '' Meiogyne punctulata'' * '' Meiogyne ramarowii'' * '' Meiogyne stenopetala'' * '' Meiogyne trichocarpa'' * '' Meiogyne verrucosa'' * '' Meiogyne virgata'' - type species (

, western

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including the Philippines)

References

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