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Annona sclerophylla

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. Cuba
Climate
wet tropical

About

Annona sclerophylla is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a shrub endemic to eastern Cuba.<ref"Annona sclerophylla Saff". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved January 4, 2019.</ref> William Edwin Safford, the American botanist who first formally described the species in 1914, named it after its rigidly hard leaves (Latinized forms of Greek σκληρός, sklērós, and φύλλον, phúllon).

Other Annona plants

Annona acuminata · Annona acutiflora · Annona ambotay · Annona andicola · Annona angustifolia · Annona asplundiana · Annona atabapensis · Annona aurantiaca · Annona bahiensis · Annona boliviana · Annona bullata · Annona cacans

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Annona sclerophylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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