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Sapotaceae - Chrysophyllum L.

Description:

  • Trees or shrubs
  • Leaves with many, closely parallel lateral veins; stipules absent
  • Flowers generally 5-merous, axillary or on naked branches below leaves, solitary or in fascicles
  • Corolla tube: short, cylindric, urceolate or campanulate; petals entire, imbricate
  • Stamens usually short; anthers versatile, ± dorsifixed, ovate to triangular, sometimes somewhat sagittate, often apiculate
  • Ovary pubescent; style columnar, short, thick, glabrous
  • Fruit usually 3-5-seeded
  • Seeds with long and narrow, ventral scar; testa hard, smooth and shiny; endosperm copious
  • x = 13 (12) (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Chrysophyllum L.
    • Linnaeus 192 (1753)
    • Harvey & Wright: 436 (1906)
    • Meeuse: 326 (1960)
    • Meeuse: 35 (1963)
    • Kupicha: 211 (1983)
    • Pennington: 216 (1991)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 80, especially in the Neotropics, ± 15 in Africa, 10 in Madagascar, and 2 or 3 extending from India to Malesia and Australia
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Chrysophyllum viridifolium J.M.Wood & Franks, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • HARVEY, W.H. & WRIGHT, C.H. 1906. Sapotaceae. Flora capensis 4,1
  • KUPICHA, F.K. 1983. Sapotaceae. Flora zambesiaca 7,1
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1753. Species plantarum. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • 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

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