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Mitrephora Hook.F. & Thomson

Genus

Angiosperms > Magnoliales > Annonaceae

Characteristics

Trees to 40 m tall. Petiole short; leaf blade venation arcuately looped near margin, secondary veins 4-24 on each side of midvein. Flowers terminal, leaf opposed, or extra-axillary, solitary or in cymes; sympodial rachides simple or branched, internodes short or long. Flowers bisexual, pendent. Pedicel short or long, with basal bracts and submedian bracteoles. Sepals 3, valvate, basally ± connate. Petals 6, in 2 whorls, free, with each whorl valvate; outer petals usually smaller than inner petals, without a basal claw; inner petals with base clawed, apically connivent to form a mitriform dome. Stamens many; anthers cuneate, extrorse; connectives apically truncate. Carpels few to many, free; ovules several per carpel, in 2 series. Fruit apocarpous; monocarps sessile or stipitate, globose, obovoid, or cylindric, sometimes longitudinally ridged, smooth or rarely warty.
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Trees or shrubs, unarmed, with simple hairs. Shoots with shining reddish brown hairs, soon glabrescent. Flowers bisexual, solitary or few on simple bracteate leaf-opposed axes, sometimes (not in Australia) internodal or terminal; peduncle sometimes persistent and woody; pedicel with medial bract. Sepals valvate, shortly connate at base. Petals valvate; outer petals broad-based, flat, spreading; inner petals connivent with a broad angular-obovate or spade-shaped blade and long narrow basal claw; blade margins coherent. Stamens wedge-shaped with a broad truncate connective concealing anther cells; pollen grains solitary. Carpels mostly numerous; stigma sessile or subsessile, obovoid or subglobular; ovules several. Apocarps fleshy, indehiscent, subglobose, obovoid or oblong, pubescent, yellow. Seeds several, lozenge-shaped or plano-convex.
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Images

Mitrephora unspecified picture

Distribution

Mitrephora world distribution map, present in Australia and China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:2076-1
WFO ID wfo-4000024443
COL ID 63C6H
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Synonyms

Kinginda Mitrephora

Lower taxons

Mitrephora maingayi Mitrephora lanotan Mitrephora longipetala Mitrephora reflexa Mitrephora rufescens Mitrephora obtusa Mitrephora simeuluensis Mitrephora vittata Mitrephora clemensiorum Mitrephora fragrans Mitrephora diversifolia Mitrephora ferruginea Mitrephora weberi Mitrephora vulpina Mitrephora williamsii Mitrephora winitii Mitrephora woodii Mitrephora alba Mitrephora basilanensis Mitrephora cagayanensis Mitrephora sirikitiae Mitrephora keithii Mitrephora korthalsiana Mitrephora glabra Mitrephora grandiflora Mitrephora pictiflora Mitrephora polypyrena Mitrephora samarensis Mitrephora poilanei Mitrephora petelotii Mitrephora phanrangensis Mitrephora macrocarpa Mitrephora kostermansii Mitrephora multifolia Mitrephora uniflora Mitrephora sundaica Mitrephora amdjahii Mitrephora sorsogonensis Mitrephora heyneana Mitrephora wangii Mitrephora tomentosa Mitrephora macclurei Mitrephora imbricatarum-apicum Mitrephora endertii Mitrephora pallens Mitrephora harae Mitrephora andamanica
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