Annonaceae
Xylopia L.
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Genus Parent: Annonaceae Status: Valid
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Trees to 25 m, some species with aerial roots.
Leaves: Leaves usually narrow with inconspicuous venation and pubescence of simple hairs.
Reproductive Morphology
Fruit: Fruit apocarpous with up to 25 dehiscent, elongated carpels to 7 cm long, red externally when mature, internally pink, weakly contracted around each seed.
Infructescence: Infructescence axillary, ramiflorous, sometimes cauliflorous.
Seeds: Various small seeds per carpel, surrounded by thin aril.
Other
Distribution: Guatemala to Bolivia, also in the Old World tropics.