''Monodora'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
in family
Annonaceae
The Annonaceae are a Family (biology), 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 ...
. 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 specie ...
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De Wild.
* ''
Monodora minor''
Engl. & Diels
* ''
Monodora myristica
''Monodora myristica'', the calabash nutmeg or African nutmeg, is a tropical tree of the family Annonaceae or custard apple family of flowering plants. It is native to tropical Africa from Sierra Leone in the west to Tanzania.
In former times, it ...
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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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