Annonaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Annonaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees or shrubs, generally aromatic, with alternate entire leaves. Stipules none. Sepals 3 (rarely 2), valvate or rarely imbricate. Petals about 6, arranged in 2 series. Stamens oo; anthers adnate, extrorse. Carpels oo, separate or coherent, mainly fleshy in fruit. Seeds large, anatropous; embryo minute; endosperm copious, wrinkled. About 46 genera and 550 species, mostly in the tropics, a few in the temperate zones.