ANNONACEA
Diagnostic Characters
Perennial woody trees, shrubs or woody
climbers; no herbs.
Leaves simple, two ranked, exstipulate, glands
are present.
Flowers fascicled or solitary.
Flowers small, bisexual, hemicyclic, hypogynous
and actinomorphic; sweet scented (Artabotrys).
, ANNONACEA
Diagnostic Characters
Stamens many, free, acyclic hooded, with short
thick filaments; spiral arrangement of stamens o
convex thalamus; connectives thick and broad a
sometimes surpass the anther lobes; anthers lin
and extrorse.
Gynoecium polycarpellary,: apocarpous; carpels
spirally arranged, acyclic; placentation marginal
Diagnostic Characters
Perennial woody trees, shrubs or woody
climbers; no herbs.
Leaves simple, two ranked, exstipulate, glands
are present.
Flowers fascicled or solitary.
Flowers small, bisexual, hemicyclic, hypogynous
and actinomorphic; sweet scented (Artabotrys).
, ANNONACEA
Diagnostic Characters
Stamens many, free, acyclic hooded, with short
thick filaments; spiral arrangement of stamens o
convex thalamus; connectives thick and broad a
sometimes surpass the anther lobes; anthers lin
and extrorse.
Gynoecium polycarpellary,: apocarpous; carpels
spirally arranged, acyclic; placentation marginal
