Annickia | |
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Annickia affinis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Magnoliales |
Family: | Annonaceae |
Subfamily: | Malmeoideae |
Genus: | Annickia Setten & Maas |
Synonyms | |
EnantiaOliv. |
Annickia is a genus of plant in family Annonaceae. Every species of this genus is native to continental Africa, from west Tropical Africa to Tanzania.
As accepted by Kew; [1]
A revision of the genus Annickia was carried out in 2007. [2]
The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, it is the largest family in the Magnoliales. Several genera produce edible fruit, most notably Annona, Anonidium, Asimina, Rollinia, and Uvaria. Its type genus is Annona. The family is concentrated in the tropics, with few species found in temperate regions. About 900 species are Neotropical, 450 are Afrotropical, and the remaining are Indomalayan.
Sapranthus is a genus of flowering woody plants in the family Annonaceae. The genus was first described in 1866 by Berthold Carl Seemann.
Paulus Johannes Maria "Paul" Maas is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family (Costaceae), the Gentian Family (Gentianaceae), the Bloodwort Family (Haemodoraceae), the Banana Family (Musaceae), the Olacaceae, the Triuridaceae, and the Ginger Family (Zingiberaceae).
Hexalobus mossambicensis is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Mozambique.
Hexalobus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. There are five species native to tropical Africa.
Polyceratocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. All known species are native to continental Africa.
Uvariopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. The genus is unique to Africa, and consists of about 18 species, all of which are either ramiflorous, cauliflorous or both.
Xylopia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. They are mostly trees and some shrubs. There are about 160 species distributed in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Podococcus is a genus of palms found in tropical Africa. It includes two recognized species:
Campylosiphon is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1882. It is native to tropical western and central Africa, as well as northern South America.
Hornschuchia is a genus of flowering plants in the custard apple and soursop family Annonaceae, with all species native to South America and in eastern Brazil. It is within the Bocageeae tribe.
Hexalobus bussei is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cameroon. Ludwig Diels, the German botanist who first formally described the species, named it after another German botanist, Walter Busse, who collected the sample that Diels examined.
Mischogyne is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae. It comprises five species distributed in Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia], Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Arthur Wallis Exell the British botanist who first formally described the genus named it after the stalks that bears its reproductive structures.
The Malmeoideae are a subfamily of trees and other plants of the family Annonaceae.
Brieya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae.
Ephedranthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae.
Ruizodendron is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. It is part of Malmeoideae subfamily and Malmeeae tribe.The only knowns species is Ruizodendron ovale.
Annickia chlorantha is a tree that grows up to 25 meters tall, it belongs to the Annonaceae family. An important tree used in traditional medical practices for the treatment of malaria and various diseases in Nigeria and Cameroon; oil extracted from stem barks and leaves of the species and Annickia affinis, its more common close kin have been widely studied.
Annickia polycarpa is a small to medium-sized tree found in evergreen forests of West and Central Africa, it is within the Annonaceae family. It is also called the African Yellow wood.
Uvariopsis congensis is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia. Walter Robyns and Jean Ghesquière, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after the Belgian Congo, now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the specimen they examined was collected in the town of Kisantu near the Inkisi River.