Annona L.

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Annonaceae

• Scientific Name

  Annona L.

• Description

  Description - Mostly trees, with coriaceous or chartaceous leaves, and perfect, usually solitary and axillary, nodding, peduneled flowers. Sepals 3, valvate, deciduous. Petals usually 6, valvate, the 3 outer larger than the 3 inner. Receptacle hemispheric. Anther-sacs contiguous. Pistils borne at the top of the receptacle; ovaries 1-ovuled; stigma sessile or nearly so. Fruit compound, aggregate, many-seeded; seeds arillate. [Name said to be derived from Malayan.] Fifty species or more, -of tropical and subtropical distribution. Type species: Annona muricata L.