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Description
Family Sapotaceae
Trees
or shrubs
, usually producing latex. Leaves spirally arranged
or alternate and distichous, rarely ± opposite, sometimes crowded at apex of branchlets
; stipules early deciduous or absent; leaf blade
papery
or leathery, margin
entire. Flowers bisexual
or unisexual
, usually in sessile axillary
clusters
, rarely solitary; cluster pedunculate or in raceme-like inflorescence, bracteolate
. Calyx a single whorl of usually 4--6 sepals, or 2 whorls each with 2--4 sepals. Corolla lobes
as many to 2 X
as many as sepals, usually entire, rarely with 2 lacerate
or lobular appendages
. Stamens inserted
at corolla base
or at throat
of corolla tube
, as many as and opposite corolla lobes to many and in 2 or 3 whorls; staminodes when present alternate with stamens, scaly
to petal-like. Ovary superior, 4- or 5-locular, placentation axillary; ovules 1 per locule, anatropous
. Style 1, often apically lobed
. Fruit a berry or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seed coat
brown (pale
yellow in Pouteria annamensis), hard, shiny, rich in tannin; endosperm usually oily; seed scar
lateral
and linear
to oblong
or basal and round
.
About 1100 species and 53 genera: pantropical
; 11 genera and 24 species (six endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Primulanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1996
- Order:
Ericales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Sapotaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Sapodilla Family
- Genus:
Franchetella
()
- Specific epithet:
reticulata
- (Engl.) Aubr?v.
- Botanical name: - Franchetella reticulata (Engl.) Aubr?v.
- Specific epithet:
reticulata
- (Engl.) Aubr?v.
- Genus:
Franchetella
(
- Family:
Sapotaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Primulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Chrysophyllum reticulatum Engl.
Notes
Publishing author
: Aubr?v. Publication
: Adansonia s?r. 2, 1: 183
1962
Basionym
author: (Engl.)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Franchetella
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Further Reading
- Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang). 1987. Sapotaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 47-83.
Notes
Contributors
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4579382
Footnotes
- Shugang Li & T. D. Pennington "Sapotaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 205. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
