Pouteria bilocularis (H.J.P.Winkl.) 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
Labatia bilocularis H.J.P.Winkl., Pseudocladia neblinaensis Aubrév.
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots glabrous, dark brown to greyish, becoming finely cracked and scaling, sometimes lenticellate. Leaves spaced, spirally arranged, 5.5-15(-l 9) × 2.5-6 cm, elliptic to oblanceolate, apex acute to narrowly attenuate, base narrowly attenuate, coriaceous, glabrous, lower surface usually minutely punctate; venation eucamptodromous, marginal vein present, midrib slightly raised on the upper surface, secondary veins 7-11 pairs, convergent, arcuate; intersecondaries moderate to long; tertiaries conspicuous, parallel to the secondaries and reticulate. Petiole 0.5-1.8 cm long, slightly channelled, glabrous. Fascicles 2-20 flowered, axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves. Pedicel 2-6 mm long, with sparse minute appressed hairs or glabrous. Flowers unisexual and bisexual (functionally male?; plant apparently monoecious or dioecious. Sepals 4-5, 1-1.5 mm long, broadly ovate or suborbicular, apex rounded, sparsely appressed puberulous on both surfaces, or glabrous. Corolla 1.75-2.25 mm long, tube equalling or slightly longer than the lobes; lobes 4-5, ovate to suborbicular, apex obtuse, rounded or truncate, glabrous. Stamens 4-5, fixed at the top of the corolla tube; filaments ca. 0.1 mm long, glabrous; anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long, inflexed, ovate to lanceolate, glabrous; stamens absent in female flowers. Staminodes 4-5,0.3-0.4 mm long, ovate to subulate, glabrous, reduced to a vestige in female flowers. Disk absent. Ovary flattened (ovoid in female flowers), bilocular, puberulous, style 0.4-0.5 mm long after anthesis, included, glabrous; style-head simple. Fruit 2.5-6 cm long, ellipsoid or obovoid, apex rounded, base acute to obtuse or rounded, hard-skinned, smooth, glabrous. Seed 2-3.5 cm long, ellipsoid, laterally compressed, rounded at both ends, testa shining, nearly always wrinkled or verrucose, rarely smooth, 0.3-1 mm thick; scar full-length, adaxial, 2-4 mm wide; embryo with plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent. Field characters. Tree to 35 m high and 40 cm diam., buttressed to 2 m high, slash exuding copious milky latex. Flowers greenish-yellow, fruit ripening orange-yellow. The cotyledons are reported to be purple (FDBG 4106). Flowering and fruiting throughout the year. The fruits are eaten by the monkey Cebus apella (Foster & Janson 8279, Peru).
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Discussion
The fruit is edible.
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Common Names
Abiurana, gallo runto, moraballi, quinilla
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Objects
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Distribution
Amazonian Brazil to Guyana, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, in lowland rain forest over sand or clay, occasionally on periodically flooded land, altitudinal range near sea level to 1200 m.
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