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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Species
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ANNONA GLABRA L
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. PI. 537. 1753.
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Synonym
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Anona palustris L. Sp. PI. 757. 1762. Anona laurifolia Dunal, Monogr. Anonac. 65. 1817. Anona peruviana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Dunal, 1. c. 67. 1817. Anona uliginosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. PI. 5: 65. 1821. Anona australis St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1: 33. 1825. Anona pisonis St. Hil. & Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2. 17: 131. 1842, non Mart.
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Description
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A tree up to 10 metres high; branchlets very soon glabrous. Leaves on petioles 1.0-1.5(-2.5) cm. long, rather thin, pale green, ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rotundate or acute and decurrent at the base, shortly acute or rarely obtuse at the apex, 7-14 cm. long and 3-8 cm. broad; network of veins dense and nicely prominent on both sides. Flowers solitary, issuing from about the middle of the internodes below the leaves; pedicels 1.5-2.0 cm. long, glabrous. Sepals rotundate, apiculate, 3-5 mm. long. Petals glabrous on outside, the outer ovate, 2.5-3.0(-4.0) cm. long, the inner a little smaller. Stamens 3-4 mm. long, connective disk broad, papillose but not setose. Fruit globose-ovoid, rounded at the top, 7-12 cm. long, smooth, areoles hardly obvious.
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Habit
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tree
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Distribution
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This species is distributed from Mexico and the West Indies southwards to Ecuador on the west side and to southern Brazil on the east, also on the west coast of tropical Africa; always growing near the sea in littoral forests, in mangrove swamps and on riverbanks.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Chagres, Fendler 1; forest at Rlo Indio de Gatuin, near sea-level, Pittier 2809; in swampy places near Panama, S. Hayes s.n. BOCAS DEL TORO: Old Bank Island, Von Wedel 2082.
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Note
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Also reported from Barro Colorado Island (Standley, 1933).
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