Annonaceae
Annona excelens
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Species Parent: Annona Status: Invalid Reason: unverified
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Trees to ca. 8 m tall.
Main axis: Bark strong, fibrous.
Branch: Stems red-brown to brown pubescent, sometimes tan pubescent at the apex, becoming glabrescent with age.
Leaves: Leaves simple, alternate, red-brown to brown pubescent throughout, especially on the petiole and lower laminar surface, the hairs simple; petioles thick, canaliculate on upper surface, to ca. 1.5 cm long; lamina elliptic to oblong-elliptic, to ca. 8 x 25 cm, the base acute, the apex short-acuminate, the margins entire; the midvein impressed above, the secondary venation weakly brochidodromous, the secondary veins darker below due to pubescence.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence 1-few-flowered, ramiflorous, terminal, or opposite the leaf.
Flowers: Flowers not seen.
Fruit: Fruit syncarpous consisting of many carpels, fleshy, not seen in our area.
Seeds: Seeds many per fruit.