''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 exclud ...

in family Annonaceae. It contains approximately 15 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa.

Selected species

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Monodora angolensis ''Monodora angolensis'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sudan, T ...

'' Welw. * ''

Monodora carolinae ''Monodora carolinae'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Mozambique and Tanzania. Thomas Couvreur, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after his wife Carolina. Description It is a tree ...

'' Couvreur * ''

Monodora crispata ''Monodora crispata'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Adolf Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler, the German bo ...

'' Engl. * ''

Monodora globiflora ''Monodora globiflora'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Tanzania. Thomas Couvreur, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its inner petals that touch one another, but are not fused, ...

'' Couvreur * ''

Monodora grandidieri ''Monodora grandidieri '' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, and Tanzania. Henri Ernest Baillon, the French botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the F ...

'' Baill. * ''

Monodora hastipetala ''Monodora hastipetala'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Tanzania. Thomas Couvreur, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its spear ( in Latin) shaped inner petals. Description ...

'' Couvreur * ''

Monodora junodii ''Monodora junodii'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first forma ...

'' 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 ...

'' De Wild. * ''

Monodora minor ''Monodora minor'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Mozambique and Tanzania. Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species, do not explicitly explain t ...

'' 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 ...

'' (Gaertn.) Dunal;

Calabash nutmeg ''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 ...

; based on: ''Annona myristica'' Gaertn. * ''

Monodora stenopetala ''Monodora stenopetala'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Malawi and Mozambique. Daniel Oliver, the English botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its narrow (Latinized form of Greek , ...

'' Oliv. * ''

Monodora tenuifolia ''Monodora tenuifolia'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to equatorial Africa. George Bentham, the English botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its slender ( in Latin) leaves ( in Latin) ...

'' Benth. * ''

Monodora undulata ''Monodora undulata'' is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Palisot de Beauvois the botanist and entomologist wh ...

'' (P.Beauv.) Couvreur * ''

Monodora unwinii ''Monodora unwinii'' is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat ...

'' Hutch. & Dalz. * ''

Monodora zenkeri ''Monodora'' is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. It contains approximately 15 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa. Selected species * '' Monodora angolensis'' Welw. * '' Monodora carolinae'' Couvreur * '' Monodora crispata'' E ...

'' Engl.

External links

IPNI List of Species.

References

Annonaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Annonaceae-stub