Pouteria trilocularis Cronquist
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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. Acre: Basin of R. Purus, Boca do Acre, Macapa, Apr 1944 (fl), A.M. Adams 2070/wll (holotype, NY; isotype, US).
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Synonyms
Franchetella neblinaensis Aubrév.
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots minutely appressed puberulous, soon glabrous, becoming greyish-brown, cracked and scaling, lenticellate. Leaves spaced, spirally arranged, 12.5-32 × 5-10.6 cm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, apex broadly or narrowly attenuate to subtruncate, base attenuate to obtuse or truncate, coriaceous, glabrous, venation eucamptodromous, midrib flat or occasionally slightly raised on the upper surface, weak marginal vein present, secondary veins 7-14 pairs, parallel or slightly convergent, slightly arcuate; intersecondaries small or absent; tertiaries horizontal or oblique, usually with a slightly less prominent reticulum, secondary and higher order venation raised on lower surface. Petiole 1-2 cm long, not or only slightly channelled, glabrous. Fascicles 5-15-flowered, axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves. Pedicel 0.4-1.6 cm long, often accrescent in fruit and up to 1 cm broad, sparsely appressed puberulous. Flowers unisexual (plant monoecious ?). Sepals five, 3-5 mm long, outer lanceolate with acute apex, inner oblong with rounded apex, appressed puberulous outside, sparsely appressed puberulous inside, sometimes ciliate. Corolla shortly tubular, (male) 5.5-6.5 mm long, tube 3.5-4.5 mm long, lobes ca. 2 mm long, (female) 3.5-5 mm long, tube 1.75-3 mm long, lobes 1.5-2 mm long, lobes (both sexes) five, ovate, lanceolate or triangular, apex acute, sericeous or glabrous outside, glabrous inside. Stamens five, fixed at the apex of the corolla tube, filaments 0.2-0.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1-1.25 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous, absent in female flowers. Staminodes five, (male) 1-1.25 mm long, (female) 0.5-1 mm long, broadly triangular or lanceolate, usually glabrous, occasionally densely puberulous on the outer surface. Disk absent (or perhaps represented by the expanded flattened ovary). Ovary usually flattened and expanded, less frequently conical, 3-5-locular, puberulous; style 1-3 mm long after anthesis, puberulous below; style-head simple. Fruit 4-5.5 cm long, ovoid to globose, apex rounded, base truncate, strongly tuberculate to almost smooth, glabrous. Seeds 1-3, 2.5-3.5 cm long, ellipsoid, plano-convex or shaped like the segment of an orange (depending on how many seeds in the fruit), testa smooth, shining, 0.75-1 mm thick; scar adaxial, full length, sometimes extending over the base and apex of seed, 0.8-1.8 cm wide; embryo with plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent. Field characters. Tree to 35 m high and 75 cm diam.; buttressed to 1.5 m high; bark greyish-brown, fissured or scaly and peeling off in rounded flakes; slash light brown with abundant white, fast flowing latex. The flowers are cream-white and the ripe fruit yellow or orange. Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.
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Common Names
Caimitón, chupón, chupón bianco, quina quina blanca, quina quina negra
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Objects
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Distribution
Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Barinas Venezuela South America| Falcón Venezuela South America| Mérida Venezuela South America| Miranda Venezuela South America| Portuguesa Venezuela South America| Distrito Federal Venezuela South America| Yaracuy Venezuela South America| Zulia Venezuela South America| Ecuador South America| Napo Ecuador South America| Peru South America| Ucayali Peru South America| Brazil South America| Acre Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Rondônia Brazil South America| Bolivia South America| Pando Bolivia South America|