Annona dolabripetala
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Rollinia dolabripetala, St. Hil. (Annona dolabripetala, Raddi. Rollinia longifolia, St. Hil.). Hatchet-lobed Rollinia. A small tree, 16 1/2-23 ft- high: young branches, together with the lower surface of the young lvs., their petioles, and the fls. ferrugineous-tomentose: vegetative lvs. oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 4-6 in. long and about 1 3/5 in- broad, those of the flowering branches much smaller, acutish or acute, or sometimes subacumi- nate at the apex, obtuse at the base, glabrous above, rufous-pubescent beneath, with the midrib prominent beneath, ferrugineous, with 20-28 lateral nerves; petiole about 6/25in. long, grooved above, persistently ferrugineous-tomentose: peduncles solitary or rarely in pairs, ferrugineous-tomentose, bracteolate at the base, 1/2-1 1/2 in. long: calyx-divisions cordate-ovate or suborbicular; corolla-wings rather fleshy, 1 in. long, ferrugineous-tomentose, laterally compressed in the form of a hatchet or broad knife with its blade in a vertical plane, at first ascending, at length broadly spreading: fr. (immature) globose, squamose, pubescent, with the areoles slightly convex; seeds compressed, somewhat cuneate, testa reddish yellow, thin, showing the wrinkles of the inclosed ruminate endosperm. This species, the type of the genus Rollinia, was first collected on Mt. Corcovado, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where its fls. appeared in Feb. and its fr. in May.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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