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Sapotaceae - Inhambanella (Engl.) Dubard

Description:

  • Trees attaining impressive size
  • Leaves coriaceous, glabrous; stipules caducous
  • Flowers in fascicles in axils of leaves or leaf scars
  • Sepals (3)4-6, imbricate
  • Corolla usually 4-6-lobed; lobes each with a middle and 2 lateral segments
  • Stamens 5, arising from throat of corolla tube; anthers apiculate; staminodes lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly triangular
  • Ovary 5(6)-locular, pubescent; ovules with lateral attachment; style glabrous, short, capitate or tapering to apex
  • Fruit 1-seeded
  • Seed large, with long scar on ventral side; testa crustaceous

Nomenclature:

  • Inhambanella (Engl.) Dubard
    • Dubard: 42 (1915)
    • Hemsley: 1 (1968)
    • Kupicha: 232 (1983)
    • Pennington: 140 (1991)
  • Lecomtedoxa in sense of Meeuse
    • Meeuse: 347 (1960)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 2, one in West Africa, the other in East Africa and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Inhambanella henriquesii (Engl. & Warb.) Dubard in N KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • DUBARD, M. 1915. Les Sapotacées du groupe des Sideroxylinées-Mimusopées. Annales de l' Institut Botanico-géologique Colonial de Marseille 3,3
  • HEMSLEY, J.H. 1968. Flora of tropical East Africa. Sapotaceae
  • KUPICHA, F.K. 1983. Sapotaceae. Flora zambesiaca 7,1
  • MEEUSE, A.D.J. 1960. Notes on the Sapotaceae of southern Africa. Bothalia 7
  • PENNINGTON, T.D. 1991. The genera of Sapotaceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx

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