Annonaceae

Annona L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 537 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa, Madagascar, Mexico to Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Cayman Is., Central African Republic, Central American Pacific Is., Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Southwest Caribbean, Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Aruba, Assam, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cook Is., East Himalaya, Eritrea, Fiji, Galápagos, Hainan, India, Kermadec Is., Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Maldives, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritania, Mauritius, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicobar Is., Niue, Northern Territory, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Santa Cruz Is., Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., Spain, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Robyns & Ghesq. Essai de Révision des Espéces africaines du Genre Annona L. (1934).
  • —F.T.A. 1: 14

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 241 (1754).
  • Sp. Pl. 1: 536 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 241 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 536 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images