Annona cascarilloides
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| Annona cascarilloides | |
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| Botanical illustration of Annona cascarilloides flower | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Annona |
| Species: | A. cascarilloides |
| Binomial name | |
| Annona cascarilloides | |
| Synonyms | |
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Annona elliptica R.E.Fr. | |
Annona cascarilloides is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba.[2] According to William Edwin Safford,[3] the species was named it after the pattern of its leaf veins which resemble species of a different genus, that at the time Safford was writing was called Cascarilla, but is now synonymous with the genera Croton[4] and Ladenbergia.[5] Despite this assertion by Safford, August Grisebach, the German botanist who first formally described the species, makes no mention of Cascarilla in his 1866 entry.[6]