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Mitrephora calcarea is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree native to Laos and Vietnam. Aruna Weerasooriya and Richard M.K. Saunders, the botanists who provided the first valid formal description of the species, named it after the limy (calcareus in Latin) soil it grows in. The name follows a prior invalid account by Suzanne Jovet-Ast, which lacked a Latin description.
It has been observed growing in limestone forests at elevations of 100 meters (330 ft).
Mitrephora alba · Mitrephora amdjahii · Mitrephora caudata · Mitrephora diversifolia · Mitrephora fragrans · Mitrephora glabra · Large Cap Flower · Nilgiri Cap Flower · Mitrephora keithii · Mitrephora lanotan · Mitrephora macclurei · Mitrephora macrocarpa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mitrephora calcarea 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.
