Xylopia monosperma Jessup

Species

Angiosperms > Magnoliales > Annonaceae > Xylopia

Characteristics

Tree to 10 m high. Shoots puberulous; branchlets puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 3–4.5 mm long; lamina ovate or elliptic, 4–9 cm long, 1.4–3.8 cm wide, acute or obtuse at base, acute at apex, glabrous above, sparsely appressed-puberulous below; secondary veins 9–12 pairs. Flowers mostly solitary; peduncle 1 mm long; pedicel 2–2.5 mm long; bracts depressed-ovate, pubescent. Sepals depressed-ovate, 2 mm long, 2.3 mm wide, pubescent. Petals yellowish green. Outer petals triangular or ovate, incurved at base, 7.5–8.5 mm long, 4.5–5 mm wide. Inner petals elliptic with a concave or saccate base, 3.2 mm long, 2.2 mm wide. Stamens 45–55, 0.6 mm long, 0.3 mm wide; connective rounded. Carpels 6; ovary 0.5 mm long; ovule 1; style and stigma incurved, 0.5–0.6 mm long. Apocarps usually 2–5, obliquely obovoid, 2-2.4 cm long, 1.4–1.8 cm wide, glabrous, red inside and out. Seed 1, ellipsoidal, smooth, black, attached near base of carpel; aril white.
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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In Queensland, grows in evergreen and semideciduous notophyll vine forest and open forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Xylopia monosperma world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77081955-1
WFO ID wfo-0000508172
COL ID 5CM5C
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Synonyms

Xylopia monosperma