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Artabotrys hexapetalus (L.f.) Bhandari
Synonym : Annona hexapetala L. f.
Family : Annonaceae
Local Names : Manoranjini,
Madana-kameswari, Bhandari vine
Flowering
and fruiting period:
January – May
Distribution: Indo-Malesia
Habitat: Grown as garden
plant, also naturalised
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: Yes
Uses: Ornamental. The
flowers yield an essential oil, used in perfumeries. The flowers are used to scent tea. A
decoction of the leaves is used as a treatment against cholera. The fruit is
used to treat scrofula. A fibre obtained from the plant is said to be of good
length.
Key Characters: Climbing shrubs;
branchlets slightly puberulous. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, glabrous.
Flowers solitary or paired on terminal or leaf opposed hooked peduncles,
fragrant; pedicels pubescent. Sepals ovate, recurved, pubescent. Petals
lanceolate, saccate or concave at base, appressed - villous. Stamens many,
anthers beaked concealing the anther cells. Carpels many,
