Monodora angolensis
species of plant
Monodora angolensis is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zaire. Friedrich Welwitsch, the Austrian botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Angola where he found it growing near the town of Pungo-Andongo.
Description
It is a tree reaching 20 meters (66 ft) in height with grey to black, furrowed bark. Its mature branches are hairless and have lenticels. Its hairless, papery to leathery, oval to elliptical leaves are 4–20 by 2-7.5 centimeters. The tips of the leaves taper to a point and the bases are blunt or wedge-shaped. The leaves have 8–16 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs. Its hairless petioles are 2–10 by 1 millimeters and have a groove on their upper surface. It has solitary flowers, positioned opposite from leaves, that hang down.
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