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Annonaceae

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

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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