Monodora minor

Monodora minor is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Mozambique and Tanzania.[2] Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species, named it after its small (minor in Latin) stature.

Monodora minor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Monodora
Species:
M. minor
Binomial name
Monodora minor

Description

It is a bush or small tree reaching 6 meters in height. Its branches have lenticels. Its papery leaves are 6-18 by 3.3-8 centimeters and rounded at their tips. The leaves are smooth on their upper and lower surfaces. Its petioles are 4-8 millimeters long. Its pendulous flowers are arranged in cymes which are extra-axillary. Each flower is on a pedicel 2-5 centimeters long. Its flowers have 3 oval-shaped sepals that are 7-8 by 4-6 millimeters. Its 6 petals are arranged in two rows of 3. The outer petals are yellow with red highlights, 1.9-2 by 1.1-1.5 centimeters, and have wavy margins. The inner petals are similarly colored with margins that touch one another before they mature. The inner petals have a 3-6 millimeter wide claw at their base and a 1-1.2 by 0.9-1.1 blade. The inner petals are smooth on their outer surface, hairy inside, and densely hairy on their margins. Itsstamens that are 0.5-0.75 millimeters long. Its fruit are 4.2 by 2.5 centimeters and pale green with yellow spots when developing and dark purple when dry. Its shiny, light brown seeds are 1.4 by 1.1 by 0.65 centimeters, and triangular in cross-section.[3][4]

Reproductive biology

The pollen of M. minor is shed as permanent tetrads.[5]

References
  1. Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project (2009). "Monodora minor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T158313A5194914. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T158313A5194914.en. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. "Monodora minor Engl. & Diels". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  3. Diels, Ludwig; Engler, Adolf (1901). Monographieen afrikanischer Pflanzen-Familien und -Gattungen [Monographs of African plant families and genera] (in German and Latin). 6. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.
  4. Verdcourt, B. (1971). "MONODORA minor Engl. & Diels [family ANNONACEAE]". Global Plants. ITHAKA. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  5. Couvreur, Thomas L. P. (2009). "Monograph of the Syncarpous African Genera Isolona and Monodora (Annonaceae)". Systematic Botany Monographs. 87: 1–150. JSTOR 25592354.


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