- Cyathocalyx
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Cyathocalyx Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Magnoliids Order: Magnoliales Family: Annonaceae Genus: Cyathocalyx
Champ. ex Hook. f. & ThomsonSpecies 36-37, see text.
Cyathocalyx is a small genus with about 36 species distributed from southern India, Sri Lanka, through Malaysia, Indomalayan islands and reaches as far as Fiji in the South Pacific[1].
The salient features of the genus includes- monopodial trees, supra-axillary or nearly leaf-opposed inflorescences, six petals which are basally concave and constricted above the reproductive organs to form a "pollination chamber".
Species include:
- Cyathocalyx augustipetalus R. J. Wang & R. M. K. Saunders
- Cyathocalyx biovulatus Boerl.
- Cyathocalyx crassipetalus
- Cyathocalyx crinatus
- Cyathocalyx deltoideus
- Cyathocalyx havilandii
- Cyathocalyx hexagynus
- Cyathocalyx insularis A.C.Sm.
- Cyathocalyx magnifructus
- Cyathocalyx pruniferus
- Cyathocalyx pubescens
- Cyathocalyx samarensis
References
- ^ Wang, R.J and Saunders, R.M.K.S (2006) A synopsis of Cyathocalyx species (Annonaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneom with descriptions of two new species. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society. 152,513-532.
Categories:- Annonaceae genera
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