Annonaceae
Monodora

Monodora myristica (Gaertn.) Dunal

First published in Monogr. Anonac.: 80 (1817)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Tropical Africa to SW. Kenya and NW. Angola. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaïre

Introduced into:

Trinidad-Tobago

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2009). Nova silva cusatlantica. Árboles nativos e introduciados de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29-1: 1-438.
  • Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 1: 1-114. ORSTROM, Bangui.
  • Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
  • Couvreur, T.L., Dagallier, L.-P.M.J., Crozier, F., Ghogue, J.-P., Hoekstra, P.H., Kamdem, N.G., Johnson, D.M., Murray, N.A. & Sonké, B. (2022). Flora of Cameroon - Annonaceae Vol 45. PhytoKeys 207: 1-532.
  • Couvreur, T.L.P. (2009). Monograph of the syncarpous African genera Isolona and Monodora (Annonaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 87: 1-150.
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
  • Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M. & Keay, R.W.J. (1954-1958). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 1-828.
  • Kalema, J. & Beentje, H. (2012). Conservation checklist of the trees of Uganda: 1-235. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania 30: 1-307.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Robyns, W. & al. (eds.) (1948-1963). Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi 1-10.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
  • Verdcourt, B. (1971). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Annonaceae: 1-131.

Kew Species Profiles

  • Barwick, M. (2004). Tropical and Subtropical Trees: a Worldwide Encyclopaedic Guide. Thames & Hudson, London.
  • Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E. (1996). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Burkill, H.M. (1985). The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Edition 2. Vol. 1. Families A-D. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hooker, W.J. (1831). Monodora myristica. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 58: t. 3059.
  • Mabberley, D.J. (2008). Mabberley’s Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. Third edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • The Plant List (2010). Monodora myristica.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Chev. Bot. 11.
  • —F.T.A. 1: 37

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
  • Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania 30: 1-307.
  • Verdcourt, B. (1971). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Annonaceae: 1-131.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Boutique in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 2: 268 (1951).
  • Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 36 (1961).
  • Dunal, Mon. Anon.: 80 (1817).
  • Engl. & Diels in Monographieen Afrikanischer Pflanzen-Familien und Gattungen 6: 86, t. 30/A (1901).
  • Keay, Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 54 (1954).
  • Le Thomas in Fl. Gabon 16, Annonacées: 342, t. 63 (1969).
  • Paiva in Mem. Soc. Brot. 19: 122 (1966).
  • R. E. Fries in A. Engler & K. Prantl, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed. 2, 17a (2): 168 (1959).
  • W.J. Eggeling, Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate, ed. 2: 19 (1952).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jun 1, 2001 Cable, S. [3285] Cameroon K000108047 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Cable, S. [653] Cameroon K000108044 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Cable, S. [3507] Cameroon K000108041 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Ghogue, J.-P. [494] Cameroon K000108049 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Cable, S. [1215] Cameroon K000108043 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [2516] Cameroon K000108042 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [2017] Cameroon K000108050 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Cable, S. [2789] Cameroon K000108048 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Cheek, M. [7519] Cameroon K000108052 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Cheek, M. [10357] Cameroon K000108051 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Cheek, M. [10228] Cameroon K000108046 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [1576] Cameroon K000108040 Yes
Jun 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [1497] Cameroon K000108045 Yes
Mar 1, 1997 Cable, S. [2544] Cameroon K000008130 Yes
Jan 1, 1958 Keay, R.W.J. [37410] Cameroon K000105568 Yes
Jan 1, 1958 Keay, R.W.J. [37410] Cameroon K000105567 Yes
Thomas, D.W. [10105] Cameroon K001495569 No
Ghogue.; Lumba, N.; Galla, J.; Victor, N.; Charlemagne, N. [1487] Cameroon K001480264 No
Gosline, W.C.; Edmondo, N.; Epie, J.; Katumba.; Roland.; Emily.; Smith, R. [342] Cameroon K001480260 No
Staudt, A. [583] Cameroon K000105563 Yes
Mann, G. [27] Cameroon K000105565 Isotype Yes
Mann, G. [27] Cameroon K000105564 Holotype Yes
Mann, G. [27] Cameroon K000105566 Isotype Yes
Drummond, R.B.; Hemsley, J.H. [4717] Uganda K:SPC-22676.000 No
Groves, M. [198] Cameroon K001518811 No
Preuss, P.R. [1303a] Cameroon K000105562 Yes
Darbyshire, I.; Etuge.; Fletcher.; Partain.; Njume.; Nguembou. [22] Cameroon K001480270 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K000880418 Type Yes
Keay, R.W.G. [37410] Cameroon K:SPC-28116.000 No
Onochie, C.F.A. [9105] Nigeria K:SPC-17622.000 No
Prenner, G.; Cheek, M. [58] Cameroon K:SPC-76498.000 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K000880419 Unknown Type Material Yes
Forman, L.L. [71] K:SPC-14654.000 No
Styles, B.T. [211] Uganda K:SPC-07373.000 No
Unwin, A.H. [45] Nigeria Monodora unwinii K000199030 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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