Small Asimina reticulata, the netted pawpaw, is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae.

The shoot bark changes color with age beginning as tan or rust-colored, transitioning to brown or gray-brown and becoming gray.

Its leathery, oblong leaves are 5-8 centimeters long with tips that are pointed, rounded or slightly notched.

It has 1-3 flowers per node on 2-3.5 centimeter long pedicels that emerge from the axils of leaf scars.

[7] It has been observed growing in moist, poorly drained sand in piney flatwoods and coastal dune scrub habitats.