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Pouteria Aubl.

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Reference
Hist.Pl.Guiane 1:85 (1775)
Name Status
Not Current

Scientific Description

Family Sapotaceae.

Habit and leaf form. Trees, or shrubs; evergreen; laticiferous. Mesophytic. Leaves alternate, or opposite (often crowded towards the tips of the branchlets); when alternate, spiral; leathery; petiolate; non-sheathing; simple. Leaf blades entire; pinnately veined; cross-venulate. Leaves without stipules. Leaf blade margins entire. Domatia recorded; represented by pits. Stem anatomy. Nodes tri-lacunar, or unilacunar. Secondary thickening developing from a conventional cambial ring.

Reproductive type, pollination. Fertile flowers hermaphrodite, or functionally male, or functionally female. Unisexual flowers present, or absent. Plants hermaphrodite, or dioecious.

Inflorescence and flower features. Flowers aggregated in ‘inflorescences’. The terminal inflorescence unit cymose. Inflorescences axillary (or ramiflorous); comprised of clusters. Flowers bracteolate; small; regular; cyclic; pentacyclic. Free hypanthium absent. Hypogynous disk present, or absent. Perianth with distinct calyx and corolla; 8–20; 2 -whorled; isomerous. Calyx 4–6, or 6–11; 1 -whorled; polysepalous; imbricate. Corolla 4–6(–9); 1 -whorled; not appendiculate; gamopetalous; imbricate; green to yellow, or cream to yellow. Corolla members entire. Androecium 8–18. Androecial members adnate (to the corolla), or free of the perianth (rarely); free of one another; 2 -whorled. Androecium including staminodes. Staminodes 4–6(–9); non-petaloid (oblong, linear or subulate). Stamens 4–6(–9); isomerous with the perianth; alternisepalous. Anthers dehiscing via longitudinal slits; extrorse, or latrorse; tetrasporangiate. Gynoecium 1–6(–15) carpelled. The pistil 1–6(–15) celled. Carpels isomerous with the perianth. Gynoecium syncarpous; eu-syncarpous; superior. Ovary plurilocular; 1–6(–15) locular; more or less conic, often densely hairy. Gynoecium stylate. Styles 1; attenuate from the ovary; apical. Stigmas 1 (simple or lobed); when simple, capitate; dry type; papillate; Group II type. Placentation axile. Ovules 1 per locule; ascending; hemianatropous to anatropous.

Fruit and seed features. Fruit fleshy, or non-fleshy (more or less woody); indehiscent; a berry; 1–6 seeded. Seeds with a linear, oblong or broadly ovate scar of attachment; endospermic, or non-endospermic. Endosperm oily. Seeds with amyloid, or without amyloid. Embryo well differentiated. Cotyledons 2 (large, thin, flat). Seedling. Germination phanerocotylar, or cryptocotylar.

Physiology, biochemistry. Aluminium accumulation not found.

Geography, cytology, number of species. Native of Australia. Not endemic to Australia. Australian states and territories: Western Australia, Northern Territory, and Queensland. Northern Botanical Province.

Economic uses, etc. Edible fruits (abiu, canistel, eggfruit).