Polyalthia

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Polyalthia is a genus of phanerogamous plants with 269 species belonging to the Annonaceae family. They are native to the Old World tropics as far as Australia.

Description

They are trees and shrubs, with simple or glabrous hairs. Flowers mostly bisexual, solitary or in 2-many flower cymes or fascicles, extra-axillary, axillary or opposite leaf-like, occasionally on trunk. Sepals 3, valvate or slightly overlapping. Petals 6, biseriate, valvate, subequal, often very large and showy. Stamens mostly numerous, filaments very short, wedge-shaped. Carpels few to numerous. Monocarp fruits few to many, indehiscent, ellipsoid, ovoid or subglobose, stipitate or subsessile.

Taxonomy

The genus was described by Carl Ludwig Blume and published in Flora Javae Annonac.: 68. 1830. The type species is: Polyalthia subcordata (Blume) Blume.

Species

Polyalthia amicorum A. C. Sm. ex Yuncker

Polyalthia barnesii Merr.

Polyalthia beccarii King

Polyalthia borneensis Merr.

Polyalthia cumingiana Merr.

Polyalthia flava Merr.

Polyalthia klemmii Elmer

Polyalthia laddiana A. C. Sm.

Polyalthia laui Merr.

Polyalthia longifolia Sonn.

Polyalthia loriformis Gillespie

Polyalthia mindanaensis Elmer

Polyalthia minutiflora Elmer

Polyalthia nickersonii Elmer

Polyalthia obliqua Hook. f. et Thomson

Polyalthia oligogyna Merr. et Chun

Polyalthia pacifies Elmer

Polyalthia palawanensis Merr.

Polyalthia pedicellata A. C. Sm.

Polyalthia petelotii Merr.

Polyalthia pinnatinervia Elmer

Polyalthia thumbense Elmer

Polyalthia ramosii Merr.

Polyalthia reticulata Elmer

Polyalthia romblonensis Elmer

Polyalthia urdanetensis Elmer

Polyalthia williamsii C. B. Rob.

Complete list of species

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