Mitrephora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae, that are native to an area that extends from China in the north to Queensland. Plants in the genus Mitrephora are also found in southern India (Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu) and Southeast Asia.
Description Plants in the genus Mitrephora are trees or shrubs, the young shoots covered with reddish-brown hairs. The flowers are bisexual, usually arranged singly or in small groups in leaf axils. The sepals are valvate and fused at the base. The petals are valvate, the outer petals broad, flat and spreading, the inner petals with a broadly egg-shaped or spade-shaped blade with a long, narrow hinge at the base. The edges of the blades are fused. The stamens are wedge-shaped and the anthers are hidden. There are usually many carpels containing several ovules, and the stigma is more or less sessile. The fruit is fleshy, more or less spherical and yellow, containing several seeds.
Taxonomy The genus Mitrephora was first formally described in 1830 by Carl Ludwig Blume who gave it the name Uvaria sect. Mitrephorae in his Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium. In 1855, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson raised the genus Mitrephora in their book Flora Indica. The genus name (Mitrephora) is from Greek mitra a "head dress" and phoretos meaning to "bear" or "wear", referring to the inner petals.
Species list The following is a list of Mitrephora species accepted by Plants of the World Online as at July 2024:
Mitrephora alba Ridl. Mitrephora amdjahii Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora andamanica Thoth. & D.Das Mitrephora basilanensis Merr. Mitrephora cagayanensis Merr. Mitrephora calcarea Diels ex Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora chulabhorniana Damth., Aongyong & Chaowasku Mitrephora clemensiorum Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora diversifolia (Span.) Miq. (Queensland, Indonesia, New Guinea) Mitrephora endertii Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora ferruginea Boerl. ex Koord.-Schum. Mitrephora fragrans Merr. Mitrephora glabra Scheff. Mitrephora grandiflora Bedd. Mitrephora harae H.Ohashi Mitrephora heyneana (Hook.f. & Thomson) Thwaites Mitrephora imbricatarum-apicum H.Okada Mitrephora keithii Ridl. Mitrephora korthalsiana Miq. Mitrephora kostermansii Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora lanotan (Blanco) Merr. Mitrephora longipetala Miq. Mitrephora macclurei Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora macrocarpa (Miq.) Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora maingayi Hook.f. & Thomson Mitrephora monocarpa R.M.K.Saunders & Chalermglin Mitrephora multifolia Elmer ex Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora obtusa (Blume) Hook.f. & Thomson Mitrephora pallens Jovet-Ast Mitrephora petelotii Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora phanrangensis Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora pictiflora Elmer Mitrephora poilanei Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora polypyrena (Blume) Zoll. Mitrephora reflexa Merr. Mitrephora rufescens Ridl. Mitrephora samarensis Merr. Mitrephora simeuluensis Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora sirikitiae Weeras., Chalermglin & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora sorsogonensis Elmer ex Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora sukhothaiensis Leerat., Chalermglin & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora sundaica Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora tomentosa Hook.f. & Thomson Mitrephora uniflora Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora vittata Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders Mitrephora vulpina C.E.C.Fisch. Mitrephora wangii Hu Mitrephora weberi Merr. Mitrephora williamsii C.B.Rob. Mitrephora winitii Craib Mitrephora woodii Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
.
References