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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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- 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
- Tribe:
Mimusopeae
()
- Subtribe:
Mimusopinae
()
- Genus:
Mimusops
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
lacera
- Baker
- Botanical name: - Mimusops lacera Baker
- Specific epithet:
lacera
- Baker
- Genus:
Mimusops
(
- Subtribe:
Mimusopinae
(
- Tribe:
Mimusopeae
(
- Family:
Sapotaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Primulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Baker Publication : Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al. ] 3: 507 1877 [Oct 1877]
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
- Bulletin of miscellaneous information. Additional Series. Royal Gardens, Kew. 9 1915 [Kew, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens], 1898-1936; url p. 421.
- West African forests and forestry / London: T.F. Unwin, ltd., [1920] url , , .
- West African forests and forestry, by A. Harold Unwin. .. with 110 illustrations by the author. London, T. F. Unwin, ltd.[1920] url p. 141, p. 159, p. 378, p. 456, p. 517, p. 67, p. 78.
- Wissenschaftliche ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Africa-Expedition, 1907-1908: unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910- url p. 522, p. 708.
- Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang). 1987. Sapotaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 47-83.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4580037
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]
