Guatteria
Guatteria is a genus of plants in the Annonaceae family.
Description
They are shrubs to trees with membranous leaves, the main vein elevated on the upper side. Flowers solitary or inflorescences with many flowers, axillary, jointed pedicels and with several minute bracts below the joints; fragrant flowers with a fruity odor, often banana-like; sepals valvate; petals 6, imbricate, subequal, usually yellow at anthesis; stamens numerous, broadened connective, truncate-discoid; carpels numerous, ovule 1, basal, erect. Fruit a fascicle of flattened, ellipsoid monocarps, black when mature, stipitate, the stipes frequently red; seeds ellipsoid, without aril.
Taxonomy
The genus was described by Ruiz & Pav. and published in Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 85. 1794. The type species is: Guatteria glauca Ruiz & Pav.
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