Mitrephora
The genus Mitrephora, of family Annonaceae,[1] comprises around 40 species of trees and shrubs found in tropical Asia and northern Australasia. The area of distribution extends from China in the North (Hainan, Yunnan) down to Queensland, Australia in the South. The genus is widely found in southern India (Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu) and Southeast Asia. It reaches a maximum of diversity in Borneo and the Philippines.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Magnoliales |
Family: | Annonaceae |
Tribe: | Miliuseae |
Genus: | Mitrephora (Blume) Hook.f. & Thomson |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Kinginda Kuntze |
Description
Mitrephora are a genus of trees that are often tall. They have leathery leaves. They have 3 rounded sepals. Their flowers have 6 petals arranged in two whorls. The edges of the petals in each whorl touch one another. The exterior petals are oval with somewhat conspicuous venation. The interior petals have a basal claw with a vaulted blade. Their flowers have numerous oblong to wedge-shapted stamen with dorsally positioned bi-lobed anthers. Their flowers have hairless carpels with oblong ovaries. Within the ovaries the numerous ovules are positioned axially in two rows. Its elongated styles are grooved on the inside.[2]
Species
Species in the Genus include:[1]
- Mitrephora alba Ridl.
- Mitrephora aversa
- Mitrephora bousigoniana
- Mitrephora calcarea
- Mitrephora caudata
- Mitrephora celebica
- Mitrephora clemensiorum
- Mitrephora collinsae
- Mitrephora ellipanthoides
- Mitrephora ferruginea
- Mitrephora fragrans
- Mitrephora glabra
- Mitrephora glandulifera
- Mitrephora grandiflora
- Mitrephora heyneana
- Mitrephora keithii
- Mitrephora korthalsiana
- Mitrephora lanotan
- Mitrephora macclurei
- Mitrephora macrocarpa
- Mitrephora maingayi
- Mitrephora multifolia
- Mitrephora obtusa
- Mitrephora pallens Jovet-Ast
- Mitrephora petelotii
- Mitrephora pictiflora
- Mitrephora pisocarpa
- Mitrephora polypyrena
- Mitrephora reflexa
- Mitrephora reticulata
- Mitrephora rugosa
- Mitrephora samarensis
- Mitrephora simeuluensis
- Mitrephora sirikitiae
- Mitrephora sorsogonensis
- Mitrephora teysmannii
- Mitrephora tomentosa (synonym M. thorelii)
- Mitrephora trimera
- Mitrephora vandaeflora
- Mitrephora versteegii
- Mitrephora viridifolia
- Mitrephora vittata
- Mitrephora vulpina
- Mitrephora wangii
- Mitrephora weberi
- Mitrephora williamsii
- Mitrephora winitii
- Mitrephora woodii
- Mitrephora zippeliana
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References
- "Mitrephora (Blume) Hook.f. & Thomson". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Thomson, Thomas (1855). Flora Indica (in English and Latin). London: W. Pamplin. p. 112.
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