Annona rigida is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Brazil and Colombia.[1] Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its rigid (Latin: rigidus in Latin) leaves.[2]
It is a bush. Its rigid, oblong, yellow-green leaves are 12-20 by 3-5 centimeters, hairless and have pointed tips. Its solitary flowers are on thick, rigid pedicels that are 0.5-1 centimeter long with a 3-5 millimeter oval bract near their base. Its oval to triangular sepals are 4-5 millimeters long, recurved and come to a point at their tip. It has two rows of petals. The oval, wrinkled, warty outer petals are 3 by 2 centimeters. The outer petals have margins that touch but are not fused. The outer surface of the inner petals is covered in dense woolly hairs. Its stamen are 5 millimeters long. Its immature fruit are round with a diameter of 2–3.5 centimeters and covered in conical projections. Its flowers have numerous carpels.[3]
The pollen of A. rigida is shed as permanent tetrads.[4]
It grows in the Amazon rainforest.[5]