''Monodora'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
in family
Annonaceae
The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, it is the largest family in the Ma ...
. It contains approximately 15 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa.
Selected species
* ''
Monodora angolensis''
Welw.
* ''
Monodora carolinae''
Couvreur
* ''
Monodora crispata''
Engl.
* ''
Monodora globiflora''
Couvreur
* ''
Monodora grandidieri''
Baill.
* ''
Monodora hastipetala''
Couvreur
* ''
Monodora junodii''
Engl. & Diels
* ''
Monodora laurentii
''Monodora laurentii'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo. Émile De Wildeman, the Belgian botanist who first formally described the speci ...
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De Wild.
* ''
Monodora minor''
Engl. & Diels
* ''
Monodora myristica
''Monodora myristica'', the calabash nutmeg, is a tropical tree of the family Annonaceae or custard apple family of flowering plants. It is native to Angola, Benin, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eq ...
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(Gaertn.) Dunal;
Calabash nutmeg; based on: ''Annona myristica'' Gaertn.
* ''
Monodora stenopetala''
Oliv.
* ''
Monodora tenuifolia''
Benth.
* ''
Monodora undulata''
(P.Beauv.) Couvreur
* ''
Monodora unwinii''
Hutch. & Dalz.
* ''
Monodora zenkeri''
Engl.
External links
IPNI List of Species.
References
Annonaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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