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Polyalthia

Turner, Ian M.;Utteridge, Timothy M. A.

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Polyalthia

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Polyalthia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. There are approximately 90 species distributed from Africa to Asia and the Pacific.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderMagnoliales
  5. FamilyAnnonaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa
Observations recorded22,453

General: Polyalthia sensu stricto from related genera including

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,924
With media
2,456
Family
Annonaceae
Collections
MICH, US, NY
Recorded in
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Species
  • Reassigned to other genera
  • References

Polyalthia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. There are approximately 90 species distributed from Africa to Asia and the Pacific.

These are trees and shrubs. The flower has six petals in two whorls, the inner petals curving inward over the centre.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyalthia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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