Pouteria venosa (Mart.) 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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Description
Species Description - Young shoots finely appressed puberulous to shortly crisped pubescent (hairs greyish-white to pale brown), soon glabrous, greyish-brown to pale buff, smooth or finely cracked and scaling in thin pieces, usually with some elongate lenticels. Leaves spaced or loosely clustered, spirally arranged, 6.6-21.4 × 2.2-8.3 cm, oblanceolate, apex usually obtuse or obtusely cuspidate to rounded, rarely acute, base narrowly attenuate or cuneate, chartaceous, glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, midrib slightly raised on the upper surface, but often recessed, weak marginal vein sometimes present, secondary veins 8-14 pairs, parallel or slightly convergent, arcuate; intersecondaries usually absent; tertiaries oblique, not prominent, fine lower order reticulum often present. Petiole 0.6-3 cm long, slightly to strongly channelled, appressed puberulous to shortly pubescent, soon glabrous. Fascicles 1-6-flowered, axillary and below the leaves. Pedicel 0.4-2.2 cm long, appressed puberulous to shortly crisped pubescent. Flowers bisexual. Sepals four, 0.5-1(-1.5) cm long, inner often considerably longer than the outer, suborbicular, broadly ovate or elliptic, apex obtuse or rounded, appressed puberulous or crisped pubescent outside, often with a broad glabrous margin, appressed puberulous inside, or indumentum confined to a narrow band near the margin, often ciliate. Corolla broadly tubular, 0.95-1.5 cm long, tube 5-9 mm long, lobes six, 4-6 mm long, oblong to broadly elliptic, apex rounded or obtuse, papillose. Stamens six, fixed near the apex of the corolla tube; filaments 1.5-2 mm long, geniculate at apex, glabrous; anthers 1.2-2 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous. Staminodes six, 2-4 mm long, subulate, papillose. Disk rarely present as small annulus around the ovary base. Ovary conical to broadly columnar with a truncate apex, 5-11 -locular, velutinous; style 0.65-1 cm long after anthesis, exserted or equalling the corolla, velutinous near the base; style-head simple or slightly lobed. Fruit 1.8-8 cm long, globose or depressed globose, grounded at apex and base, smooth, velutinous at first, usually with some residual velutinous indumentum persisting, or finally glabrous. Seeds 1-3, 1.8-4.2 cm long, globose or ellipsoid or plano-convex (dependent on number of seeds in fruit), testa smooth, shining, 0.5-2 mm thick; scar adaxial, covering from one-third to two-thirds of the surface, exact size dependent on number of seeds in fruit; embryo with planoconvex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent.