# Mitrephora

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***Mitrephora*** is a genus of flowering plants in the family [Annonaceae](/source/Annonaceae), that are native to an area that extends from China in the north to [Queensland](/source/Queensland). Plants in the genus *Mitrephora* are also found in southern India ([Karnataka](/source/Karnataka), [Kerala](/source/Kerala) and [Tamil Nadu](/source/Tamil_Nadu)) and [Southeast Asia](/source/Southeast_Asia).

## Description

Plants in the genus *Mitrephora* are trees or shrubs, the young shoots covered with reddish-brown hairs. The flowers are [bisexual](/source/Plant_reproductive_morphology#Terminology), usually arranged singly or in small groups in leaf axils. The [sepals](/source/Sepal) are [valvate](/source/Aestivation_(botany)) and fused at the base. The petals are valvate, the outer petals broad, flat and spreading, the inner petals with a broadly egg-shaped or spade-shaped blade with a long, narrow hinge at the base. The edges of the blades are fused. The [stamens](/source/Stamen) are wedge-shaped and the [anthers](/source/Stamen#Morphology_and_terminology) are hidden. There are usually many [carpels](/source/Gynoecium#Carpels) containing several [ovules](/source/Ovule), and the [stigma](/source/Stigma_(botany)) is more or less [sessile](/source/Sessility_(botany)). The fruit is fleshy, more or less spherical and yellow, containing several seeds.[2]

## Taxonomy

The genus *Mitrephora* was first formally described in 1830 by [Carl Ludwig Blume](/source/Carl_Ludwig_Blume) who gave it the name *Uvaria* sect. *Mitrephorae* in his *Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium*.[3][4] In 1855, [Joseph Dalton Hooker](/source/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker) and [Thomas Thomson](/source/Thomas_Thomson_(botanist)) raised the genus *Mitrephora* in their book *Flora Indica*.[5][6] The genus name (*Mitrephora*) is from Greek *mitra* a "head dress" and *phoretos* meaning to "bear" or "wear", referring to the inner petals.[2]

## Species list

The following is a list of *Mitrephora* species accepted by [Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) as at July 2024:[1]

- *[Mitrephora alba](/source/Mitrephora_alba)* [Ridl.](/source/Henry_Nicholas_Ridley)
- *[Mitrephora amdjahii](/source/Mitrephora_amdjahii)* [Weeras.](/source/Aruna_Dharmapriya_Weerasooriya) & [R.M.K.Saunders](/source/Richard_M.K._Saunders)
- *[Mitrephora andamanica](/source/Mitrephora_andamanica)* [Thoth.](/source/Krishnamurthy_Thothathri) & [D.Das](/source/Debika_Das)
- *[Mitrephora basilanensis](/source/Mitrephora_basilanensis)* [Merr.](/source/Elmer_Drew_Merrill)
- *[Mitrephora cagayanensis](/source/Mitrephora_cagayanensis)* Merr.
- *[Mitrephora calcarea](/source/Mitrephora_calcarea)* [Diels](/source/Friedrich_Ludwig_Emil_Diels) ex [Weeras.](/source/Aruna_Dharmapriya_Weerasooriya) & [R.M.K.Saunders](/source/Richard_M.K._Saunders)
- *[Mitrephora chulabhorniana](/source/Mitrephora_chulabhorniana)* [Damth.](/source/Anissara_Damthongdee), [Aongyong](/source/Kithisak_Aongyong) & [Chaowasku](/source/Tanawat_Chaowasku)
- *[Mitrephora clemensiorum](/source/Mitrephora_clemensiorum)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora diversifolia](/source/Mitrephora_diversifolia)* ([Span.](/source/Span.)) [Miq.](/source/Miq.) (Queensland, Indonesia, New Guinea)
- *[Mitrephora endertii](/source/Mitrephora_endertii)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora ferruginea](/source/Mitrephora_ferruginea)* [Boerl.](/source/Jacob_Gijsbert_Boerlage) ex [Koord.-Schum.](/source/Anna_Koorders-Schumacher)
- *[Mitrephora fragrans](/source/Mitrephora_fragrans)* Merr.
- *[Mitrephora glabra](/source/Mitrephora_glabra)* [Scheff.](/source/Rudolph_Scheffer)
- *[Mitrephora grandiflora](/source/Mitrephora_grandiflora)* [Bedd.](/source/Bedd.)
- *[Mitrephora harae](/source/Mitrephora_harae)* [H.Ohashi](/source/Hiroyoshi_Ohashi)
- *[Mitrephora heyneana](/source/Mitrephora_heyneana)* ([Hook.f.](/source/Hook.f.) & [Thomson](/source/Thomas_Thomson_(botanist))) [Thwaites](/source/George_Henry_Kendrick_Thwaites)
- *[Mitrephora imbricatarum-apicum](/source/Mitrephora_imbricatarum-apicum)* [H.Okada](/source/Hiroshi_Okada)
- *[Mitrephora keithii](/source/Mitrephora_keithii)* Ridl.
- *[Mitrephora korthalsiana](/source/Mitrephora_korthalsiana)* Miq.
- *[Mitrephora kostermansii](/source/Mitrephora_kostermansii)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora lanotan](/source/Mitrephora_lanotan)* ([Blanco](/source/Francisco_Manuel_Blanco)) Merr.
- *[Mitrephora longipetala](/source/Mitrephora_longipetala)* Miq.
- *[Mitrephora macclurei](/source/Mitrephora_macclurei)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora macrocarpa](/source/Mitrephora_macrocarpa)* (Miq.) Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora maingayi](/source/Mitrephora_maingayi)* Hook.f. & Thomson
- *[Mitrephora monocarpa](/source/Mitrephora_monocarpa)* R.M.K.Saunders & [Chalermglin](/source/Piya_Chalermglin)
- *[Mitrephora multifolia](/source/Mitrephora_multifolia)* [Elmer](/source/Adolph_Daniel_Edward_Elmer) ex Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora obtusa](/source/Mitrephora_obtusa)* ([Blume](/source/Carl_Ludwig_Blume)) Hook.f. & Thomson
- *[Mitrephora pallens](/source/Mitrephora_pallens)* [Jovet-Ast](/source/Suzanne_Jovet-Ast)
- *[Mitrephora petelotii](/source/Mitrephora_petelotii)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora phanrangensis](/source/Mitrephora_phanrangensis)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora pictiflora](/source/Mitrephora_pictiflora)* Elmer
- *[Mitrephora poilanei](/source/Mitrephora_poilanei)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora polypyrena](/source/Mitrephora_polypyrena)* (Blume) [Zoll.](/source/Zoll.)
- *[Mitrephora reflexa](/source/Mitrephora_reflexa)* Merr.
- *[Mitrephora rufescens](/source/Mitrephora_rufescens)* Ridl.
- *[Mitrephora samarensis](/source/Mitrephora_samarensis)* Merr.
- *[Mitrephora simeuluensis](/source/Mitrephora_simeuluensis)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora sirikitiae](/source/Mitrephora_sirikitiae)* Weeras., Chalermglin & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora sorsogonensis](/source/Mitrephora_sorsogonensis)* Elmer ex Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora sukhothaiensis](/source/Mitrephora_sukhothaiensis)* [Leerat.](/source/Charan_Leeratiwong), Chalermglin & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora sundaica](/source/Mitrephora_sundaica)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora tomentosa](/source/Mitrephora_tomentosa)* Hook.f. & Thomson
- *[Mitrephora uniflora](/source/Mitrephora_uniflora)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora vittata](/source/Mitrephora_vittata)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders
- *[Mitrephora vulpina](/source/Mitrephora_vulpina)* [C.E.C.Fisch.](/source/C.E.C.Fisch.)
- *[Mitrephora wangii](/source/Mitrephora_wangii)* [Hu](/source/Hsen_Hsu_Hu)
- *[Mitrephora weberi](/source/Mitrephora_weberi)* Merr.
- *[Mitrephora williamsii](/source/Mitrephora_williamsii)* [C.B.Rob.](/source/C.B.Rob.)
- *[Mitrephora winitii](/source/Mitrephora_winitii)* [Craib](/source/William_Grant_Craib)
- *[Mitrephora woodii](/source/Mitrephora_woodii)* Weeras. & R.M.K.Saunders

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## References

1. ["*Mitrephora*"](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:2076-1#synonyms). Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

1. Jessup, L.W. ["*Mitrephora*"](https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Mitrephora). Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

1. ["*Uvaria sect. Mitrephorae*"](https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/609983). Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

1. Blume, Carl Ludwig (1830). [*Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103181#page/179/mode/1up). Brussels: J. Frank. p. 13. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

1. ["*Mitrephora*"](https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/458660). Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

1. Hooker, Joseph Dalton & Thomson, Thomas (1855). [*Flora indica: being a systematic account of the plants of British India, together with observations on the structure and affinities of their natural orders and genera*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105730#page/415/mode/1up). London: W. Pamplin. p. 112. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

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