ASSIGNMENT

Submitted To: Dr. Nusrat Perveen

Submitted By: Mustafa Hussain

Roll No: 1448

Class: MSC(Botany)(M)

Semester: 2
nd

Annonaceae
The Annonaceae are woody trees, shrubs and
vines comprising about 130 genera and 2,300
species. The leaves are simple, alternate, lack
stipules, and generally are distichously arranged
in flat sprays. The flowers are bisexual and
actinomorphic, possessing 3 whorls of perianth
with 3 segments in each whorl. The elongated
floral axis also bears many helically disposed
stamens and several to many simple pistils.
Classification
1) Habit and leaf form.
Trees, or shrubs, or lianas; bearing essential oils;
resinous, or not resinous. Self supporting, or
climbing; when climbing, scrambling, or stem
twiners, or petiole twiners. Leaves evergreen;
alternate;distichous; non-sheathing; gland-dotted, or
not gland-dotted; aromatic, or without marked
odour; simple. Lamina entire; pinnately veined;
cross-venulate. Leaves exstipulate. Lamina margins
entire. Domatia occurring in the family (recorded in 3
genera); manifested as pockets (usually), or hair tufts
(in 1/12 species).

Classification
2) Leaf anatomy.
The leaf lamina dorsiventral. Abaxial epidermis
papillose, or not papillose. Stomata paracytic. Adaxial
hypodermis absent. Lamina with secretory cavities, or
without secretory cavities. Secretory cavities
containing oil, or containing mucilage, or containing
resin. The mesophyll usually with spherical etherial oil
cells (?); containing mucilage cells, or not containing
mucilage cells; with sclerenchymatous idioblasts, or
without sclerenchymatous idioblasts. Main veins
vertically transcurrent. Minor leaf veins without
phloem transfer cells (Annona).
Classification
3) Axial (stem, wood) anatomy.
Young stems with solid internodes. Pith with diaphragms
(commonly, comprising stone cells), or without
diaphragms; heterogeneous (with groups of stone cells
even in the absence of complete septa). Secretory cavities
present; with resin. Cork cambium present; initially
superficial. Nodes unilacunar (with three traces), or
bilacunar (according to Lammers et al 1986). Primary
vascular tissues in a cylinder, without separate bundles, or
comprising a ring of bundles; collateral. Internal phloem
absent. Cortical bundles absent. Medullary bundles absent.
Secondary thickening developing from a conventional
cambial ring. Primary medullary rays wide, or mixed wide
and narrow, or narrow. The axial xylem with vessels (but
these rather few).

Classification
3) Axial (stem, wood) anatomy.
The wood variously ring porous to diffuse porous.
The vessels very small; solitary, radially paired, in
radial multiples, and clustered. The vessel end-walls
horizontal; simple. The vessels without vestured pits;
with spiral thickening (rarely, reported in Asimena),
or without spiral thickening. The axial xylem with
fibre tracheids. The fibres without spiral thickening.
The parenchyma apotracheal. The secondary phloem
stratified into hard (fibrous) and soft
(parenchymatous) zones. Included phloem absent.
The wood commonly partially storied (VP). Tyloses
absent (?).

Classification
4) Reproductive type, pollination
Plants hermaphrodite, or monoecism (rarely), or
dioecious.
5) Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed
morphology
Flowers solitary, or aggregated in inflorescences.
The ultimate inflorescence units when flowers
aggregated, racemose. Flowers regular; cyclic, or
partially acyclic. Sometimes the androecium
acyclic (spiralled). Free hypanthium absent.
Hypogynous disk present.

Classification
6) Perianth
with distinct calyx and corolla (usually P3+3+3,
with the outer one or two whorls
sepaloid); usually 9; usually 3 whorled;
isomerous. Calyx 3, or 6; usually 2 whorled;
polysepalous; valvate, or open in bud. Corolla 3;
12 whorled; polypetalous; imbricate, or valvate.
Classification
6) Perianth
Androecium usually 25100 (i.e. many).
Androecial members when many, maturing
centripetally; free of the perianth; all equal; free
of one another; rarely 3 whorled, or 6 whorled
(otherwise spiralled). Androecium exclusively of
fertile stamens (usually), or including staminodes
(e.g. in Uvaria spp., where the outer members
may be imperfect). Staminodes when present,
external to the fertile stamens; non-
petaloid. Stamens 25100 (many).
Classification
6) Perianth
Gynoecium usually 10100 carpelled (or more
i.e. many). The pistil when syncarpous, 1 celled,
or 215 celled (or more?). Gynoecium
apocarpous (usually), or syncarpous (rarely); eu-
apocarpous (the carpels spiralled or cyclic), or
synstylovarious to eu-syncarpous
(e.g. Monodora); superior. Carpel 110 ovuled
Classification
7) Fruit
fleshy; an aggregate (commonly an aggregate of
berries). The fruiting carpels coalescing into a
secondary syncarp, or not coalescing. The fruiting
carpel indehiscent; baccate. Seeds
endospermic. Endospermruminate (by contrast
with Magnoliaceae); oily. Seeds with amyloid.
Embryo achlorophyllous (4/5).