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Taxonomy

Physical 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]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Labatia:

There are approximately 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: L. conica · L. dictyonura · L. salicites

Members of the genus Viguieranthus:

There are approximately 26 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: V. alternans · V. ambongensis · V. brevipennatus · V. cylindricostachys · V. densinervus · V. densinervus var. densinervus · V. densinervus var. pubescens · V. deusinervus · V. glaber · V. glandulosus · V. kony · V. longiracemosus · V. megalophyllus · V. perrieri · V. perrieri var. astipitatus · V. perrieri var. perrieri · V. pervillei · V. scottianus · V. simulans · V. subauriculatus · V. umbilicus · V. unifoliatus · V. unifoliolatus · V. variabilis · V. variabilis var. glaber · V. variabilis var. variabilis

Bibliography

• Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang). 1987. Sapotaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 47-83.

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16531640
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2229402

Footnotes:

1. 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.