Annonaceae
Fusaea (Baill.) Saff.
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Genus Parent: Annonaceae Status: Valid
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Typically shrubs, but sometimes becoming trees to 20 m.
Leaves: Leaves with simple hairs and conspicuously anastomosed venation.
Reproductive Morphology
Fruit: Fruit syncarpous, to 9 cm diameter, the carpels completely fused, green or brown when mature.
Infructescence: Infructescence terminal.
Seeds: Many seeds per fruit with ruminate endosperm.
Other
Distribution: Widespread in tropical America.
Notes: Similar to Annona but differentiated by the presence of a ring at the base of the fruit formed from part of the receptacle.