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Nilgiri Cap-Flower

Mitrephora heyneana

Least concern

Nilgiri Cap-Flower
The image is credited to D.N. Chaudhary, and is found in a larger work: King, George (1893). "The Anonaceae of British India". Annals of the Royal Botanic Garde · Public domain

Overview

Mitrephora heyneana is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to southwestern India and Sri Lanka. Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, the British botanists who first formally described the species under the basionym Orophea heyneana, named it after Benjamin Heyne a German botanist who collected and described many plant species from India.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Mitrephora heyneana — CC BY-SA 4.0