Annonaceae
Anaxagorea dolichocarpa Sprague & Sandwith
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Species Parent: Anaxagorea Status: Valid
Morphological Description
Diagnosis: Tree to 12 m tall. Inflorescence axillary or ramiflorous, 1- to few-flowered. Flowers yellowish, often with brown pubescence. Fruit apocarpous, monocarps several, club-shaped with stipe-like base and globose, the apex beaked, explosively dehiscent. Seeds 2 per monocarp, shiny black.
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Trees to 12 m tall.
Main axis: Bark strong, fibrous.
Branch: Stems brown pubescent when young becoming glabrous or glabrescent with age.
Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite; petioles thick, grooved above, to ca. 1 cm long; lamina elliptic to obovate-elliptic, to ca. 12 x 30 cm, coriaceous, lightly brown tomentose pubescent, the base rounded, the apex short-acuminate, the margins entire, the secondary venation eucamptodromous to weakly brochidodromous.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence axillary or ramiflorous.
Flowers: Flowers pedicillate, 1-3 per inflorescence, often with fragrance of mature banana; sepals valvate, thin, to 10 mm long; petals ovate to obovate, to 11 mm long, yellowish, thick, coriaceous.
Fruit: Fruits apocarpous, monocarps 3-30, clavate with basal stipe or globose, weakly curved, to 3 cm long, usually red at maturity, the apex beaked; explosively dehiscent along one side.
Seeds: Seeds 1-2 per monocarp, shiny black.