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Annona palustris

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Name

Identification
Duguetia barteri (Benth.) Chatrou [family ANNONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Chatrou, L.W., Pachypodanthium barteri (Benth.) Hutch. & Dalziel [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel, Annona palustris L. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Barter, Annona barteri Benth. [family ANNONACEAE ]
Related name
  • Annona uliginosa
  • Annona
  • Duguetia barteri
  • Annona echinata
  • Annona palustris
  • Annona billbergii
  • Annona glabra
  • Annona barteri
  • Pachypodanthium barteri
Common name
  • digor yéner (AS; JGA) dugur, dugor mèr (auctt.) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • alligator apple, serpent apple, monkey apple, marsh corkwood., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bu ruruf (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Pond-apple, Flora of North America Vol. 3
  • àfe = a fishing float (JMD) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • suncum (def.-ô) (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • adadima (FRI) adasima (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bululuk = it cried (DF) (THE GAMBIA, DIOLA (Fogny)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • cachiman-cochon (3), pomme channelle de mer (5)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Annona glabra Linnaeus [family ANNONACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 3,
Names
Annona glabra Linnaeus [family ANNONACEAE], Sp. Pl., 1: 537. 1753
Annona palustris Linnaeus [family ANNONACEAE]
Information
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. 2n=28.
Phenology
Flowering spring-early summer
Altitude range
0-50 m
Distribution
West IndiesMexicoCentral AmericaSouth Americaw AfricaSouth Asia (Sri Lanka).USA Fla
Discussion
Annona glabra (Annona sect. Phelloxylon Safford) has edible although scarcely desirable, yellow-fleshed fruits. The sectional name (Greek phellos, cork and xylon, wood) is descriptive because small sections of the very light wood have been used as floats by fishermen. Forms with smaller leaves and fruit have been considered a species referable to A. palustris (J. K. Small 1933); W. E. Safford (1914) considered them to be of no taxonomic consequence.

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