Mimusops balata

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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

Synonyms

Achras balata Aubl. • Binectaria borbonica Kuntze • Imbricaria balata (Aubl.) A. Chev. • Imbricaria binectaria A. Dc. • Imbricaria borbonica C. F. Gaertn. • Imbricaria commersonii G. Don • Imbricaria gigantea Pierre Ex Baill. • Imbricaria maxima Poir. • Kaukenia commersonii (G. Don) Pierre Ex Engl. • Mimusops balota Blume • Mimusops commersonii (G. Don) Engl. • Mimusops imbricaria Willd. • Mimusops maxima (Poir.) R. E. Vaughan • Mimusops nattarium Willemet • Mimusops retusa Willemet

Notes

Publishing author : Crueg. ex Griseb. Publication : Fl. Brit . W.I. [Grisebach] 400 1861 [late 1861]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Mimusops

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. balata (Assapookoo) · M. elengi (Bakul)

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Further Reading

• Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1897- url p. 133, p. 220.
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 342, p. 343.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information. Additional Series. Royal Gardens, Kew. 9 1915 [Kew, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens], 1898-1936; url p. 417.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 12 1922-1924 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 284.
• Bulletins on the rubber producing capacity of the Philippine Islands / Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Dept. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1907. url p. 26.
• Catalogue of economic plants in the collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1891. url .
• Catalogue of the products of the Brazilian forests at the International exhibition in Philadelphia, by José de Saldanha da Gama. .. New York, "O Novo mundo" printing office, 1876. url p. 7.
• Cocoa. By Dr. C. J. J. van Hall. London: Macmillan and Co., limited, 1914. url p. 202, p. 465, p. 512.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 501.
• Forest products, their manufacture and use; embracing the principal commercial features in the production, manufacture, and utilization of the most important forest products other than lumber in the United States. New YorkWiley1919 url p. 406, p. 458.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 339.
• India rubber world. Philadelphia, Bill Brothers Publishing Corp. url p. 111, p. 213, p. 237, p. 723.
• Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 40 1939 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 297.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 112.
• Practical forestry for beginners in forestry, agricultural students, woodland owners, and others desiring a general knowledge of the nature of the art, New York, D. Appleton and company, 1902. url p. 219.
• The California horticulturist and floral magazine. San Francisco, Calif.: F.A. Miller & Co., 1870- url p. 239.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 374, p. 463, p. 574, p. 574.
• Timber. LondonConstable1908 url p. 125, p. 344.
• Tropical agriculture: the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics / London: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. url .
• Tropical agriculture; the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1916. url p. 368.
• Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang). 1987. Sapotaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 47-83.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 24, 2007.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed June 07, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 02, 2008)
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3423831
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-128390
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:787858-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 24447
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 787857-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 606776

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. [back]

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