Overview
Tree from Australia with milky sap and leaves with reddish-brown velvety hairs on the lower surfaces; commonly used as a street tree in Hawaii. Fruits purplish, about an inch long.
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Orleans Plum
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
- 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:
Chrysophylleae
()
- Tribe:
Chrysophylleae
(
- Family:
Sapotaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Primulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Amorphospermum pruniferum (F. Muell.) Baehni • Chrysophyllum pruniferum F. Muell. • Lucuma prunifera (F. Muell.) F. Muell.
Notes
Basionym
: Sapotaceae Chrysophyllum pruniferum F.Muell.
Basionym author: (F.Muell.)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Niemeyera
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Further Reading
- Second systematic census of Australian plants, with chronologic, literary and geographic annotations; by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Pt. I. --Vasculares. Melbourne: Printed for the Victorian Government by McCarron. Bird & Co., 1889. url p. 154.
- Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Melbourne: R. S. Brain, govt. printer, 1895. url p. 331, p. 632, p. 642.
- Select extra-tropical plants, readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller. .. Sydney, T. Richards, government printer, 1881. url p. 209, p. 395.
- Sturtevant's notes on edible plants / Edited by U.P. Hedrick. Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1919. url p. 165, p. 671.
- The useful native plants of Australia, (including Tasmania) by J. H. Maiden. Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1889. url p. 405.
- 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 22, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. 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.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7514672
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-135498
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:125738-3
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 788133-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 756620
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]
