Xylopia L.

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Johnson, D.M. & Murray, N.A. (2018). A revision of Xylopia L. (Annonaceae): the species of Tropical Africa. PhytoKeys 97: 1-252.

Kew Bulletin

• Botermans, M., Sosef, M. S. M., Chatrou, L. W. & Couvreur, T. L. P. (2011). Revision of the African genus Hexalobus (Annonaceae). Syst. Bot. 36: 33 – 48.
• Burgess, N. D., Clarke, G. P. & Rogers, W. A. (1998). Coastal forests of eastern Africa: status, endemism patterns and their potential causes. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 64: 337 – 367.
• Burgess, N. D., Mwasumbi, L. B., Hawthorne,W. J., Dickinson, A. & Doggett, R. A. (1992). Preliminary assessment of the distribution, status and biological importance of coastal forests in Tanzania. Biol. Conservation 62: 205 – 218.
• Burgess, N. D., Salehe, J., Doggart, N., Clarke, G. P., Gordon, I., Sumbi, P. & Rodgers, A. (2004). Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa. In: R. A. Mittermeier, P. R. Gil, R. Hoffmann, J. Pilgrim, T. Brooks, C. G. Mittermeier, J. Lamoreux & G. A. B. da Fonseca (eds), Hotspots revisited: Earth’s biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems: 231 – 239. Conservation International,Washington, D. C., and Cemex, Mexico City.
• Burkill, H. M. (1985). The useful plants of West tropical Africa. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Burrows, J. E. & Burrows, S. M. (2010). Rubiaceae: a new species of Didymosalpinx and a new species of Oxyanthus from Mozambique and Tanzania.Bothalia 40(2): 200 – 204.
• Clarke, G. P. (1998). A new regional centre of endemism in Africa. In: C. R. Huxley, J. M. Lock & D. F. Cutler (eds), Chorology, taxonomy&ecology of the floras of Africa and Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Couvreur, T. L. P. (2009). Monograph of the syncarpous African genera Isolona and Monodora (Annonaceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 87: 1 – 150.
• Couvreur, T. L. P., Gereau, R. E., Wieringa, J. J. & Richardson, J. E. (2006). Description of four new species of Monodora and Isolona (Annonaceae) from Tanzania and an overview of Tanzanian Annonaceae diversity. Adansonia 28: 243 – 266.
• Couvreur, T. L. P., van der Ham, R. W. J.M., Mbele, Y. M. &Mbago, F. M. (2009). Molecular and morphological characterization of a new monotypic genus of Annonaceae, Mwasumbia, from Tanzania. Syst. Bot. 34: 266 – 276.
• Dunal, M. F. (1817). Monographie de la famille des Anonacées. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris.
• Engler, A. & Diels, L. (1901). VI. Anonaceae. In: A. Engler (ed.), Monographien afrikanischer Pflanzenfamilien und Gattungen. W. Engelmann, Leipzig.
• Fero, M., Aedo, C., Cabezas, F. & Velayos, M. (2014). Taxonomic revision of Neostenanthera (Annonaceae). Syst. Bot. 39: 17 – 30.
• Hawthorne, W. D. (1993). East African coastal forest botany. In: J. C. Lovett & S. K. Wasser (eds), Biogeography and ecology of the rain forests of eastern Africa. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Johnson, D. M., Mwasumbi, L. B. & Mbago, F. M. (1999). New species of Xylopia and Uvaria (Annonaceae) from Tanzania. Novon 9: 55 – 60.
• Le Thomas, A. (1969). 16: Annonacées. In: A. Aubréville (ed.), Flore du Gabon. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
• Luke, Q. (2005). Annotated checklist of the plants of the Shimba Hills, Kwale District, Kenya. J. E. African Nat. Hist. Soc. 94: 5 – 120.
• Maas, P. J. M., van Heusden, E. C. H., Koek-Noorman, van Setten, A. K. & Westra, L. Y. T. (1986). Studies in Annonaceae. VII. New species from the Neotropics and miscellaneous notes. Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., Ser. C 89(3): 249 – 278.
• Robson, N. K. B. (1960). Annonaceae. In A. W. Exell & H. Wild (eds), Flora Zambesiaca 1 (1): 104 – 149. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, London.
• Sayer, J. A., Harcourt, C. S. & Collins, N. M. (eds). (1991). The conservation atlas of tropical forests: Africa. IUCN and Simon & Schuster, New York.
• Stone, R. G. (2013). Warneckea cordiformis sp. nov. (Melastomataceae — Olisbeoideae) from a coastal dry forest in northern Mozambique. Nordic J. Bot. 31: 113 –117.
• Timberlake, J.,Goyder,D.,Crawford,F.,Burrows, J., Clarke, G. P., Luke,Q., Matimele,H., Müller,T., Pascal, O., de Sousa, C. & Alves, T. (2011). Coastal dry forests in northern Mozambique. Pl. Ecol. Evol. 144: 126 – 137.
• Verdcourt, B. (1971). Annonaceae. In: E. Milne-Redhead & R. M. Polhill (eds), Flora of Tropical East Africa. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, London.
• Versteegh, C. P. C. & Sosef, M. S. M. (2007). Revision of the African genus Annickia (Annonaceae). Syst. Geogr. Plants 77: 91 – 118.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Engl. & Diels Monogr. Afr. Annonac. 57 (1901).
• —F.T.A. 1: 29

Flora Zambesiaca

• Syst. Nat. ed. 10: 1250 (1759) nom. conserv.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Syst. Nat., ed. 10: 1241, 1250 & 1378 (1759), nom. conserv.