''Monoon coffeoides'' is a species 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 exclud ...
in the
Annonaceae family. It is a synonym of ''
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. coffeoides''
Plants of the World Online (POWO): ''Monoon coffeoides'' (Thwaites ex Hook.f. & Thomson) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders (retrieved 4 April 2020)
/ref> and found in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Uses
Fruit - edible for langurs and other fruit bats.
Culture
Known as "ඕමාර - omara" in Sinhala Language.
References
External links
* http://www.biotik.org/india/species/p/polycoff/polycoff_en.html
* http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/17335
* http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2406952
* http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/40137
* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227340167_Reproductive_biology_of_two_sympatric_species_of_Polyalthia_(Annonaceae)_in_Sri_Lanka._II._Breeding_systems_and_population_genetic_structure
Flora of Sri Lanka
Flora of India (region)
coffeoides
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