{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{speciesbox |image = Xylopia discreta.jpg |image_caption = Fruit of ''Xylopia discreta''<ref name=EoL>{{cite web |url= https://eol.org/pages/1054224 |title= Xylopia discreta (L. fil.) Sprague & Hutch. |author= <!--Not stated-->|date= n.d. |website=Encyclopedia of Life |publisher=Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, Botany |access-date=August 20, 2023}}</ref> |status= LC |status_system= IUCN3.1 |status_ref= <ref name=IUCNstatus2019>{{cite iucn |author= Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) & IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group |date=2019 |title= Xylopia discreta |volume=2019 |article-number= e.T143321886A143321888 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T143321886A143321888.en |access-date=19 June 2022}}</ref> |genus= Xylopia |species= discreta |authority= (L.f.) Sprague & Hutch. |synonyms= Habzelia discreta <small>(L.f.) A.DC.</small><br /> Unona discreta <small>L.f.</small><br /> Uvaria unona <small>Forsyth f.</small><br /> Xylopia salicifolia <small>Kunth</small><br /> }}
'''''Xylopia discreta''''' is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family. It is native to Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:76119-1 |title= Xylopia discreta (L.f.) Sprague & Hutch. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=June 19, 2022}} </ref> Carl Linnaeus the Younger, the botanist who first formally described the species using the basionym ''Unona discreta'', named it after its purple, aromatic fruit which set it apart ({{lang|la|discretus}} in Latin) from other members of the family.<ref name=Stearn2004>{{cite book |last= Stearn |first= William |date=2004 |title= Botanical Latin |publisher= Timber Press David & Charles |location= Portland, Ore. Newton Abbot |isbn= 978-0-88192-627-9 }}</ref><ref name=Linnaeusf1782>{{cite book |last= Linné |first= Carolo |date=1782 |title=Supplementum Plantarum |trans-title=Supplement of Plants |url=https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/11485/?offset=#page=286 |location=Brunswick |publisher= Orphanotropheum |page=270}}</ref><ref name=Sprague1916>{{cite journal |last1=Sprague |first1=T.A. |last2=Hutchinson |first2=J. |date=1916 |title=XXVII. African Anonaceae |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11628192 |journal=Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information |volume=6 |pages=145–161}}</ref>
==Description== It is a tree reaching 22 meters in height. Its young branches are silky, narrow, and pliable. The lance-shaped, hairless, papery leaves are in two rows, alternate. Its petioles very short. The flower pedicels are clustered in umbels. The fruit are purple and aromatic.<ref name=Linnaeusf1782/><ref name=Lopez2009>{{cite journal |last1=López |first1=R. |last2=Cuca |first2=L.E. |last3=Delgado |first3=G. |date=2009 |title=Antileishmanial and Immunomodulatory Activity of Xylopia discreta |journal=Parasite Immunology |volume=31 |issue=10 |pages=623–630 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3024.2009.01134.x |pmid=19751474|s2cid=1101423 }}</ref>
===Reproductive biology=== The pollen of ''Xylopia discreta'' is shed as permanent tetrads.<ref name=Walker1976> {{cite book |last=Walker |first=J.W. |editor-last1=Ferguson |editor-first1=I.K. |editor-last2=Muller |editor-first2=J. |date=1976 |chapter= Evolutionary Significance of the Exine in the Pollen of Primitive Angiosperms |title= The Evolutionary Significance of the Exine |location=London |publisher=Academic Press |isbn= 978-0-12-253650-2}}</ref>
===Distribution and habitat=== It has been observed growing in forests.<ref name=IUCNstatus2019/>
==Uses== Bioactive compounds extracted from its leaves and seeds have been reported to have antileishmanial activity in laboratory tests.<ref name=Lopez2009/> ==Alkaloids== Alkaloids contained in ''Xylopia discreta'' consist of Xylopine, Xylopinin, Discretin, Discretinin (aka Corypalmine) & Discretamin (aka Scoulerine & Aequaline).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Schmutz, J. | journal=Helvetica Chimica Acta | title=Die Alkaloide von Xylopia discreta (L. FIL. ) S PRAGUE et H UTCHINS . | volume=42 | issue=1 | pages=335–343 | date= January 1959 | doi=10.1002/hlca.19590420130 | bibcode=1959HChAc..42..335S }}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q15366915}} Category:Plants described in 1782 Category:Flora of Brazil Category:Flora of Colombia Category:Flora of French Guiana Category:Flora of Guyana Category:Flora of Suriname Category:Flora of Venezuela Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus the Younger discreta