Members: Duckeanthus, Duguetia, Fusaea, Letestudoxa, Pseudartabotrys, Tridimeris.
Region: neotropics, South and Central America.
Habitat: lowland tropical forests; warm, humid conditions.
BotanyTrees or large shrubs; often hairy or with a velvety surface.
Leaves: Simple, alternate, entire, with prominent venation.
Leaves: simple, alternate leaves with smooth margins.
Inflorescence: singly or in small groups.
Flowers: small; free sepals and petals; bisexual, actinomorphic.
Petals: 6, in two whorls of 3; thick, often fleshy; aestivation valvate.
Stamens: Numerous; connective forms a fleshy cap over the anthers
Carpels: multiple; free carpels that develop into individual, fleshy fruits; 1 to 2 ovules per carpel.
Fruits: fleshy, berry-like fruits; often aggregated into clusters; monocarps; free or compound; occasionally with a woody outer layer
Seeds: 1 per carpel, often with ruminate endosperm
TaxonomyDuguetieae is molecularly well-supported as a tribe based on phylogenetic analyses with rbcL, matK, trnL-F sequences.
Duguetieae is closely related to other
Annonoideae tribes such as
Xylopieae and
Bocageeae.