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Alphonsea lutea

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Hooker f. & Thomson

Common Names

• Muay (India)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Myanmar
• Papua New Guinea
• Sri Lanka

Natural Habitats

• Montane streamside

Flowering Times

• Sep (Papua New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

Liana or tree to 15m with rugose branches. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 85mm x 25mm. Many-flowered fascicles of yellow-tan flowers with pilose bracts, minute sepals, fleshy petals to 6mm long, 2-lobed calyx. Yellow verrucose berry to 50mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• Botanicus
• Kew
• EPZ