Leaves spirally arranged; venation brochidodromous, usually with a submarginal vein, secondaries usually close and parallel, higher order venation parallel to secondaries, leaves appearing coarsely striate; stipules usually present, but caducous
Inflorescence axillary, ramiflorous or cauliflorous
Flowers in fascicles, bisexual or unisexual
Calyx a single whorl of 5(6) free or slightly united, quincuncial sepals
Corolla shortly tubular or cyathiform; lobes 5(-10), often widely spreading, simple, aestivation imbricate or quincuncial
Stamens 5(-10), arising at top of corolla tube, usually exserted; filaments usually well developed, and often partially or completely fused into a short tube or thick fleshy collar; anthers usually extrorse, glabrous; stamens sometimes converted into petaloid staminodes in female flowers, as a single whorl of small, subulate structures alternating with stamens
Ovary (4)5(-10)-locular; placentation axile; style included or slightly exserted
Fruit a 1-seeded berry
Seeds ellipsoid, not or only slightly laterally compressed; testa smooth, often thin; scar adaxial; variable in width from narrow to broad, and sometimes extending to cover most of seed surface; embryo with plano-convex cotyledons; radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent
Nomenclature:
Englerophytum K.Krause
Krause: 343 (1914)
Aubréville: 252 (1961)
Liben: 151 (1989)
Pennington: 250 (1991)
Bredenkamp: 235 (1993)
Bequaertiodendron De Wild.
De Wildeman: 22 (1919)
Heine & Hemsley: 306 (1960)
Aubréville: 252 (1961)
Meeuse: 36 (1963)
Hemsley: 18 (1968)
Aubréville: 432 (1971)
Kupicha: 222 (1983)
Steyn: 440 (1990)
Chrysophyllum in sense of Harvey & Wright
Harvey & Wright: 436 (1906) in part
Pouteria in sense of Meeuse
Meeuse: 332 (1960) in part
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 5-10, poorly defined and variable species in tropical Africa
Southern Africa: Species 2, forest and bush of Botswana, Northern Provice, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape
References:
AUBRÉVILLE, A. 1961. Notes sur les Sapotacées de l'Afrique équatoriale. Notulae Systematicae (Paris) 16
AUBRÉVILLE, A. 1971. Essais de géophylétique des Sapotacées 2. Adansonia 11
BREDENKAMP, C.L. 1993. A Bequaertiodendron by any other name? Bothalia 23
DE WILDEMAN, E. 1919. Sur quelques espèces congolaises de la famille des Sapotacées. Revue Zoologique Africaine 7, Supplément Botanique
LIBEN, L. 1989. La véritable identité des genres et espèces confondus sous le nom de Bequaertiodendron magalismontanum (Sond.) Heine & Hemsley (Sapotaceae) en Afrique centrale et occidentale. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 59
MEEUSE, A.D.J. 1960. Notes on the Sapotaceae of southern Africa. Bothalia 7
MEEUSE, A.D.J. 1963. Sapotaceae. Flora of southern Africa 26
PENNINGTON, T.D. 1991. The genera of Sapotaceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
STEYN, E.M.A. 1990. Macromorphological floral characters in Bequaertiodendron magalismontanum, possible taxonomic significance. South African Journal of Botany 56
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