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Magnoliopsida
Annona glabra L.
EOL Text
"Kerala: Alappuzha, Kottayam"
Fla; West Indies; Mexico; Central America; South America; w Africa; South Asia (Sri Lanka).
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 3
Specimens with Barcodes: 11
Species With Barcodes: 1
Distribucion en Costa Rica: Se observa a lo largo de ambas costas y en la Isla del Coco, a elevaciones comprendidas entre los 0 y 40 m.
Distribucion General: Es nativa desde México hasta Ecuador y Brasil, Antillas y el oeste de Africa.
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled
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Arbol o arbusto.
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: In South America, found from the Guyanas south to Santa Catarina (Santos 1987). Found in southern Florida, and widely distributed in Tropical America as well as the coast of West Africa. Found in swamps and on pond banks.
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Shrubs or trees , to ca. 15 m; trunks commonly buttressed at base. Principal leaves late deciduous; petiole 10-20mm. Leaf blade ovate to elliptic, 5-15 × 6(-8) cm, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex acute to short-acuminate; surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences from leaf axils on new shoots, solitary flowers; peduncle stout, linear, club-shaped, to 2cm, becoming enlarged. Flowers: sepals reniform-cordate, 5-6 mm, glabrous; outer petals cream-white, ovate-cordate, adaxially concave, 2.5-3 cm, apex acute; inner petals cream-white, inside base deep purple, oblong-ovate, 2-2.5 cm, base cupped, incurved-cuneate, at least 2×3 length of outer petals, corrugate; stamens linear, 3-4 mm; connective thickened above anther tip; pistils conically massed, connate. Syncarp pendulous on thickened peduncle, dull yellow blotched with brown, ± ovoid, 5-12 cm, smooth with reticulate pattern formed by pistil boundaries. Seed ellipsoid to obovoid, 1-1.5 cm. 2 n =28.
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Stem and Leaf: In Guyana, boiled for a tea (and sometimes mixed with a whole plant of Passiflora foetida), which is drunk to destroy flatworms and nematodes. Bark and Leaf: Mixed with the bark and leaves of Annona squamosa for a sedative and cardiotonic infusion.