Oxandra
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Oxandra is a genus of flowering plant
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family, Annonaceae
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the soursop
Soursop
The Soursop is tripti broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree native to Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America, Colombia and Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Soursop is also native to sub-Saharan African countries that lie within the tropics. Today, it is also grown in some areas...
family, Annonaceae
Annonaceae
Annonaceae, also called the custard apple familyis a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs or rarely lianas.With about 2300 to 2500 species and more than 130 genera,...
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Selected species
- Oxandra lanceolata (Sw.) Baill.
- Oxandra laurifolia (Sw.) A.Rich.
- Oxandra leucodermisOxandra leucodermisOxandra leucodermis is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Venezuela.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
(SpruceRichard SpruceRichard Spruce was an English botanist. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent approximately 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to the mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens.The plants and objects collected...
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