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    The document provides an overview of the Annonaceae plant family. It discusses the family's systematic position, phylogeny, tribes, distribution, vegetative and reproductive characteristics, and economic importance. Some key points are that Annonaceae is closely related to Magnoliaceae, contains over 1200 species found in tropical regions, and includes edible fruits, ornamental plants, sources of essential oils, and timber.

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    Annonaceae

    SYSTEMATIC POSITION
    BENTHAM & HOOKER
    Engler & Prantl
    Dicotyledons Hutchinson
    Dicotyledonae
    Polypetalae Dicotyledons
    Archichlamydeae
    Thalamiflorae Lignosae
    Magnoliales
    Ranales Annonales
    Systematics
    • More related & advanced to Magnoliaceae
    • Resembles with Magnoliaceae – vegetative & reproductive – general
    flower structure
    • BOTH – flowers: large, bisexual, numerous stamen, few to many
    spirally arranged carpels
    • Difference : reduced and whorled perianth, exstipulate leaves &
    ruminate endosperm
    Phylogeny
    • Annonaceae & Magnoliaceae – closely allied & derived from same
    ancestral stock
    • Annonaceae – more advanced
    • Hutchinson – Annonales
    • Cronquist & Taktajan - Magnoliales
    Tribes
    • Bentham & Hooker – 5 tribes

    • Uvarieae
    • Unoneae
    • Mitrephoreae
    • Xylopieae
    • Miliuseae
    Distribution
    • 120 genera, 1200 species
    • Tropics
    • India – 26 genera & 200 species Cananga odorata
    Ylang-ylang

    Annona squamosa Polyalthia longifolia


    False ashok Artabotrys odoratissimus
    Custard apple
    Climbinf ylang-ylang
    Vegetative characters
    • Aromatic trees or shrubs or woody climbers
    • Leaves – alternate, exstipulate, simple & entire
    • Oil passages
    Inflorescence
    • Solitary axillary or terminal or leaf opposed
    or fascicled
    • cauliflorous
    Flowers
    • Bracteate, pedicellate, actinomorphic, complete, bisexual,
    hypogynous
    • Rarely unisexual – Stelechocarpous
    Calyx Corolla
    • Three • 6 petals in 2 whorls
    • Free or united at base • Inner whorl absent (Unona)
    • 3 lobed cup (Cyathocalyx) • Both similar (Cananga)
    • valvate • Free or basally connate – petals
    • Imbricate/ valvate
    Androecium Gynoecium
    • Numerous free stamens • Indefinite carpels
    • Spirally arranged on conves • Spirally arranged
    receptacle • Ovary – superior, unilocular
    • Filaments – short & thick • Parietal, basal/subbasal
    • Anthers – dithecous, adnate, placentation
    extrorse • 1/2 ovules
    • Connective – oblong, dialated / • Style short/ Stigma sessile
    truncate
    Fruit & Seed
    • Aggregate of berries
    • Seeds large, small embryo,
    ruminate endosperm
    Economic Importance
    • Edible fruits – Annona, Cananga
    • Ornamentals – Artabotyrs, Cananga, Polyalthia
    • Essential oil - Artabotyrs, Cananga
    • Timber – Cananga, Sageraea, Miliusa, Polyalthia
    • Other uses – Unona pannosa = strong fiber, cordage & paper making
    • A. squamosa – insecticidal properties, killing insects & lice

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