Pouteria campanulata 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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Type
Type. Brazil. Pará: S slope of Akarai Mountains, drainage of R. Mapuera (Trombetas tributary), Jan 1938 (fl), A. C. Smith 9944 (holotype, G; isotypes, A, F, K, MAD, MO, NY, US).
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots finely appressed puberulous, becoming glabrous, brown or greyish-brown, slightly fissured, without lenticels. Leaves spaced or loosely clustered, spirally arranged, 19-40 × 7-19 cm, oblanceolate or elliptic, apex narrowly attenuate to rounded but then finally cuspidate, base narrowly attenuate, margin sometimes revolute, coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface minutely appressed puberulous to glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, midrib flat (not raised on the upper surface), marginal vein present, secondary veins 14-23 pairs, parallel, straight or slightly arcuate; intersecondaries small or absent, tertiaries oblique; fine areolate reticulum conspicuous on lower surface. Petiole 2-4 cm long, not channelled, subglabrous. Fascicles axillary and produced from cushion-like projections on old wood, 5-many-flowered. Pedicel 0.5-1.5 cm long, appressed puberulous. Flowers bisexual (?). Sepals five, 2.5-3 mm long, ovate, rounded, puberulous on both surfaces, sometimes ciliate. Corolla 4-6 mm long, tube 1.5-2 mm long, lobes five, 2.5-4 mm long, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, apex rounded, glabrous. Stamens five, fixed in the upper half of the corolla tube; filaments 0.1-0.2 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous. Staminodes five, ca. 2 mm long, lanceolate with a narrowly attenuate apex, glabrous. Disk absent. Ovary broadly conical, strongly and irregularly longitudinally ribbed, unilocular, puberulous; style 0-1 mm long after anthesis, glabrous; style-head discoid to capitate. Fruit 1.5-1.7 cm long, ellipsoid, apex acute, base rounded, smooth or finely lenticellate, glabrous. Seed solitary, ca. 1.3 cm long, ellipsoid, obtuse at base and apex, not laterally compressed, testa smooth, shining; scar adaxial, full length, ca. 1.5 mm wide; embryo not seen. Field characters. Tree to 27 m high and 30 cm diam., unbuttressed, with reddish bark, slash exudes abundant sticky white sap. Flowers white to cream-coloured. Flowering recorded May, Jul, Sep to Dec, young fruit Dec.
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Objects
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Distribution
Western, central and northern Amazonian Brazil in mixed forest on non-flooded land up to 700 m altitude. A single collection (Plowman et al 12612) occurs in campinarana forest near Manaus, Amazonas.
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