Pouteria gardneri (Mart. & Miq.) Baehni
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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
Chrysophyllum gardneri Mart. & Miq., Lucuma catocladantha Eichler, Vitellaria catocladantha (Eichler) Engl., Discoluma gardneri (Mart. & Miq.) Baill., Podoluma catocladantha (Eichler) Baill., Lucuma paraguariensis Chodat & Hassl., Lucuma paraguariensis f. fruticosa Chodat & Hassl., Lucuma gardneriana A.DC., Pouteria catocladantha (Eichler) Baehni
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots pubescent with spreading pale, whitish hairs, soon glabrous, smooth or finely striate, usually lenticellate. Leaves spaced or loosely clustered, spirally arranged, 5.5-11.5 × 2-3.7 cm, elliptic, apex acute or narrowly attenuate, base narrowly cuneate or attenuate, chartaceous, lower surface slightly glaucous, glabrous or with scattered residual loose indumentum on midrib and veins below; venation usually eucamptodromous, rarely slightly brochidodromous, marginal vein present, midrib slightly raised on the upper surface, secondary veins 10-14 pairs, parallel, straight; intersecondaries absent; tertiaries oblique and reticulate. Petiole 3-9 mm long, not channelled, pubescent. Fascicles axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves, 1-3-flowered. Pedicel 0.4-1 (-2) cm long, slender, pubescent to glabrous. Flowers unisexual (female) and bisexual (or functionally male ?) on separate plants. Sepals (4-)5(-6), 2-3 mm long, ovate, apex acute to rounded, sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous or with some appressed pubescence inside, sometimes ciliate. Corolla cyathiform, 3.5-4 mm long, tube 1-1.5 mm long, lobes 5 (-6), 2-3mm long, broadly ovate to suborbicular, apex rounded, glabrous or occasionally with a few hairs at the base of the tube outside. Stamens 5(-6), fixed at the top of the corolla tube; filaments 0.5-1 mm long, glabrous; anthers lanceolate, 1.5-1.6 mm long, glabrous, absent in female flowers. Staminodes 5(-6), 1.5-2 mm long, narrowly lanceolate to subulate, often with ventral keel, glabrous. Disk absent. Ovary broadly conical, 2(-3)-locular, pubescent; style ca. 1.5 mm long after anthesis, included, pubescent at base; style-head simple. Fruit 1-1.7 cm long, broadly ellipsoid, rounded at base and apex, sometimes apiculate, thin-walled, smooth, with some residual appressed pubescence or glabrous. Seed solitary, 0.9-1.4 cm long, ellipsoid, moderately laterally compressed, rounded at base and apex, testa smooth, or slightly wrinkled, shining, ca. 0.3 mm thick; scar full length, adaxial and extending around the base, ca. 5 mm wide; embryo with plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent. Field characters. Tree to 10 m high and 25 cm diam. with white latex. Flowers greenish, ripe fruit black. Flowering mostly Sep to Nov, fruiting Sep to Dec.
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Discussion
The fruit is edible.
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Common Names
Leitero folha miuda, massaranduba vermelha, sapotinha, tadumo, traponu-icha
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Objects
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Distribution
E and SE Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia in gallery forest, cerrado and grassy campo, from nr. sea level to 1000 m altitude.
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