Xylopia benthamii
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Xylopia
| species = benthamii
| authority = R.E.Fr.
| synonyms = {{species list
|Xylopia benthamii var. dolichopetala|R.E.Fr.
|Xylopia benthamii var. subnuda|R.E.Fr.
|Xylopia ulei|Diels}}
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Xylopia benthamii is a species of flowering plant of the genus Xylopia, described by Robert Elias Fries in 1900.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2468130 |title=Xylopia benthamii R.E.Fr.|website=The Plant List |access-date=15 May 2018}} It contains one subspecies: Xylopia benthamii dolichopetala.{{Cite book |title=CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set) |last=Quattrocchi |first=Umberto |publisher=CRC Press |year= 2016 |isbn= 9781482250640 |pages=3970}} The species is native to Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia.{{Cite book |title=Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology |last=M.M. Grandtner, Julien Chevrette |publisher=Academic Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780123969545 |pages=706}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=269770-2 |title=Annonaceae Xylopia benthamii R.E.Fr. |website=The International Plant Names Index |access-date=15 May 2018}}
Description
Xylopia benthamii is evergreen, growing up to 25 cm in height. The branches are hairy. The leaves are lanceolate in shape and measure 8 to 11 cm in length and 2.5 to 3 cm in width with hairs underneath when young then become hairless.{{Cite book |title=Flora of Suriname, Volume 2, Issue 2 |last=August Adriaan Pulle, Joseph Lanjouw |publisher=BRILL |year=1976 |isbn=9789004045811 |pages=354}}
The flowers are cup shaped and grow in clusters. They are up to 5mm in length and 8mm in diameter, with the outer lance-shaped petal growing from 2.8 to 4 cm in length.
The fruit are an oblong shape and measure 3 to 3.5 cm long, 1.3 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick. They contain up to 8 oval seeds measuring 1 cm in diameter.