Pouteria dominigensis (C.F.Gaertn.) 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 - Tree; young shoots appressed puberulous with golden-ferruginous hairs, soon glabrous, pale buff, smooth, usually without lenticels. Leaves clustered, spirally arranged, 4.9-13 × 1.4-6.2 cm, obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic, apex obtuse, rounded, truncate or emarginate, base acute or narrowly cuneate, margin often revolute, thinly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces or finely sericeo-puberulous on the lower surface with golden-ferruginous hairs; venation brochidodromous, midrib flat or slightly raised on the upper surface, marginal vein present, secondary veins 7-12(-l5) pairs, parallel, straight; intersecondaries prominent, extending from midrib to margin; tertiaries lax-reticulate to parallel to the secondaries and descending from the margin. Petiole 3-9 mm long, not channelled, appressed puberulous. Fascicles 1-3-flowered, axillary and below the leaves. Pedicel 5-8 mm long, appressed puberulous. Flowers bisexual. Sepals four, 4-8 mm long, outer usually shorter than inner, broadly ovate, apex acute to rounded, appressed puberulous outside, or sometimes inner pair glabrous, inner surface glabrous, inner sepals sometimes ciliate. Corolla cylindrical, 0.6-1 cm long, tube 4-6 mm long, lobes 5-6, 2-4 mm long, oblong to elliptic, apex rounded or truncate, papillose. Stamens 5-6, fixed near the top of the corolla tube; filaments 1-1.5 mm long, geniculate at apex, glabrous; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous. Staminodes 5-6, 1.5-2.5 mm long, subulate, papillose. Disk absent. Ovary ovoid or cylindrical, (4-)6(-8)-locular, pubescent; style 6-8 mm long after anthesis, exserted, glabrous; style-head simple. Fruit 3.5-6 cm long, globose or depressed globose, apex truncate, apiculate, base truncate, smooth, glabrous, usually with a pale coloured zone around the apex. Seeds 1-6, 2-2.5 cm long, ellipsoid or shaped like the segment of an orange, testa smooth, shining, 0.2-0.3 mm thick; scar adaxial, 0.2-1 cm wide, elliptic to linear (depending on number of seeds in fruit); embryo with plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent.