Manilkara excelsa (Ducke) Standl.
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Authority
Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Sapotaceae
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Scientific Name
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Synonyms
Mimusops excelsa Ducke
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots rufous-brown tomentose at first, soon glabrous, pale buff, thinly scaling, without lenticels. Stipules absent. Leaves 10-17 × 3-4 cm, oblong or narrowly elliptic, often infolded along the midrib, apex and base narrowly attenuate, usually complicate, glabrous above, rufous-brown loosely tomentose below, soon becoming glabrous apart from some residual tomentum along the midrib; chartaceous to slightly coriaceous; midrib sunken on the upper surface; secondaries ca. 25 pairs, higher order venation obscurely areolate-reticulate. Petiole 1.7-3.2 cm long, slightly channelled, tomentose at first, soon glabrous. Flowers 5-10 in a fascicle. Pedicel 1.5-2.2 cm long, rufous-brown tomentose, becoming glabrous. Sepals ca. 3.5 mm long, lanceolate, apex acute, outside shortly brown-tomentose, inside glabrous. Corolla with sparse scattered crisped brown hairs on both surfaces, ca. 3.5 mm long, tube ca. 1 mm long, lobes six, divided to base into three segments, median segment narrowly boat-shaped, apex rounded; lateral segments slightly shorter than the median segment, lanceolate, acute, sometimes with a few distant lateral teeth. Stamens six, glabrous; filaments ca. 2 mm long, shortly connate to the staminodes; anthers ca. 1.2 mm long, narrowly lanceolate. Staminodes six, glabrous, ca. 2.3 mm long, oblong with a deeply bilobed apex. Ovary ovoid, 6-locular, closely appressed puberulous; style ca. 3 mm long after anthesis, glabrous. Fruit ca. 2.8 cm long, broadly ellipsoid to depressed globose, apex rounded, smooth, glabrous. Seed (not seen, description from Ducke, 1922: 236) solitary, laterally compressed with a dorsal keel. Field characters. A large tree, but sometimes flowering when quite small in rocky sites (Ducke, 1957: 655). The flowers are whitish and the fruit matures yellowish-green. Flowering in Aug and mature fruit in Dec.
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Common Names
Maparajuba
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Objects
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Distribution
Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Para), where it is confined to periodically flooded forest along the banks of the R. Tapajoz.
Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America|