{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Polyalthia longifolia fruits - at Beechanahalli 2014.jpg | image_caption = ''Monoon longifolium'' fruits | taxon = Monoon | authority = Miq.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:2082-1 |title=''Monoon'' Miq. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year=2026 |access-date=5 March 2026}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Cleistopetalum'' H.Okada * ''Enicosanthum'' Becc. * ''Griffithia'' Maingay ex King * ''Griffithianthus'' Merr. * ''Marcuccia'' Becc. * ''Woodiella'' Merr. * ''Woodiellantha'' Rauschert }}
thumb|right|''Monoon simiarum'' seeds dispersed by civets in Pakke Tiger Reserve, India '''''Monoon''''' is a genus of about 80 species of lowland tropical trees in the family Annonaceae, within the tribe Miliuseae.{{R|POWO|COL}} Species have been recorded from the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Malesia through New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northern Australia. The genus was resurrected out from ''Polyalthia'' following a molecular study showing the two genera as not immediately related.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Xue |first1=Bine |last2=Su |first2=Yvonne C.F. |last3=Thomas |first3=Daniel C. |last4=Saunders |first4=Richard M.K. |date=2012 |title=Pruning the polyphyletic genus Polyalthia (Annonaceae) and resurrecting the genus Monoon |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.615009 |journal=Taxon |language=en |volume=61 |issue=5 |pages=1021–1039 |doi=10.1002/tax.615009 |bibcode=2012Taxon..61.1021X |issn=0040-0262|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Species== {{multiple image|perrow=1|align=right| |image1=Polyalthia longifolia var pendula - leaves and top of tree.jpg |image2=Polyalthia longifolia var pendula - leaves 1.jpg |image3=Ashoka (Polyalthia longifolia) flowers W IMG 7050.jpg |footer=''Monoon longifolium'' var ''pendula'' - leaves and flowers}}
{{As of|2026|03}}, Plants of the World Online accepts the following 75 species:{{R|POWO}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em| *''Monoon acuminatum'' {{small|(Thwaites) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon amischocarpum'' {{small|(I.M.Turner) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon anomalum'' {{small|(Becc.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon asteriellum'' {{small|(Ridl.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon australe'' {{small|(Benth.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon barnesii'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon bathrantherum'' {{small|I.M.Turner}} *''Monoon bemban'' {{small|Miq.}} *''Monoon borneense'' {{small|(H.Okada) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon brevipedunculatum'' {{small|(Boerl.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon chloroxanthum'' {{small|Miq.}} *''Monoon clavigerum'' {{small|(King) Bunchalee}} *''Monoon coffeoides'' {{small|(Thwaites ex Hook.f. & Thomson) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon congestum'' {{small|(Ridl.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon congregatum'' {{small|(King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon coriaceum'' {{small|(Ridl.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon costigerum'' {{small|Miq.}} *''Monoon cupulare'' {{small|(King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon daclacense'' {{small|(Bân) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon elongatum'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon erianthoides'' {{small|(Airy Shaw) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon fragrans'' {{small|(Dalzell) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon fuscum'' {{small|(King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon gigantifolium'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon glabrum'' {{small|(Hook.f. & Thomson) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon grandiflorum'' {{small|(Becc.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon grandifolium'' {{small|(Elmer) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon harmandii'' {{small|(Pierre) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon hookerianum'' {{small|(King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon hypogaeum'' {{small|(King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon jucundum'' {{small|(Pierre) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon kalimantanense'' {{small|Nurmawati}} *''Monoon kingii'' {{small|(Baker f.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon klemmei'' {{small|(Elmer) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon lateriflorum'' {{small|(Blume) Miq.}} *''Monoon laui'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon liukiuense'' {{small|(Hatus.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon longifolium'' {{small|(Sonn.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon longipetalum'' {{small|Nurmawati}} *''Monoon macranthum'' {{small|(King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon magnoliiflorum'' {{small|(Maingay ex Hook.f. & Thomson) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon malayanum'' {{small|I.M.Turner & Utteridge}} *''Monoon membranifolium'' {{small|(J.Sinclair) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon merguiense'' {{small|(Chatterjee) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon merrillii'' {{small|(Kaneh.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge}} *''Monoon michaelii'' {{small|(C.T.White) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon mindanaense'' {{small|(Elmer) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon namkadingense'' {{small|Soulad. & Tagane}} *''Monoon nitidum'' {{small|(A.DC.) I.M.Turner}} *''Monoon oblongifolium'' {{small|(C.B.Rob.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon obtusum'' {{small|(Craib) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon oligocarpum'' {{small|Miq.}} *''Monoon ornithocephalum'' {{small|Bunchalee}} *''Monoon pachypetalum'' {{small|I.M.Turner & Utteridge}} *''Monoon pachyphyllum'' {{small|(King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon paradoxum'' {{small|(Becc.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon patinatum'' {{small|(Jessup) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon phukraduengense'' {{small|Bunchalee}} *''Monoon phuluangense'' {{small|Bunchalee}} *''Monoon praestigiosum'' {{small|(J.Sinclair) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon ramiflorum'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon roseum'' {{small|Bunchalee}} *''Monoon salomonicum'' {{small|I.M.Turner & Utteridge}} *''Monoon sclerophyllum'' {{small|(Hook.f. & Thomson) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon shendurunii'' {{small|(Basha & Sasidh.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon simiarum'' {{small|(Buch.-Ham. ex Hook.f. & Thomson) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon sublanceolatum'' {{small|Miq.}} *''Monoon sympetalum'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon thorelii'' {{small|(Pierre) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon tirunelveliense'' {{small|(M.B.Viswan. & Manik.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon tsukayae'' {{small|(H.Okada) Saengpho & Chaowasku}} *''Monoon vietnamensis'' {{small|N.S.Lý}} *''Monoon viride'' {{small|(Craib) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon xanthopetalum'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} *''Monoon zamboangaense'' {{small|(Merr.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders}} }}
== References == {{reflist|refs= <ref name="COL">{{cite web |last1=Bánki |first1=O. |last2=Roskov |first2=Y. |last3=Döring |first3=M. |last4=Ower |first4=G. |last5=Hernández Robles |first5=D.R. |last6=Plata Corredor |first6=C.A. |last7=Stjernegaard Jeppesen |first7=T. |last8=Örn |first8=A. |last9=Pape |first9=T. |last10=Hobern |first10=D. |last11=Garnett |first11=S. |last12=Little |first12=H. |last13=DeWalt |first13=R.E. |last14=Miller |first14=J. |last15=Orrell |first15=T. |last16=Aalbu |first16=R. |last17=Abbott |first17=J. |last18=Aedo |first18=C. |last19=Aescht |first19=E. |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/C6RHW |title=''Monoon'' Miq. |website=Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-03-05) |publisher=Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands |year=2026 |access-date=5 March 2026}}</ref> }}
== External links == * {{Wikispecies inline|Monoon|''Monoon''}} {{taxonbar|from=Q17483943}}
Category:Annonaceae genera Category:Monoon