Pouteria filipes Eyma

  • Authority

    Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Sapotaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pouteria filipes Eyma

  • Type

    Type. Surinam. Brownsberg, Jan 1924 (fl), BW 6366 (holotype, U; isotypes, G, GH, K, MO, NY, P).

  • Synonyms

    Pseudolabatia filipes (Eyma) Aubrév.

  • Description

    Species Description - Tree; young shoots finely appressed puberulous, becoming glabrous, greyish brown, scaling, without lenticels. Leaves spaced or loosely clustered, spirally arranged, 7.5-17 × 3.7-7.5 cm, elliptic, apex and base narrowly attenuate, chartaceous to coriaceous, glabrous above, finely appressed puberulous to sericeous below, with pale golden to reddish-brown indumentum; venation eucamptodromous, midrib flat or slightly raised on the upper surface, secondary veins 10-15 pairs, parallel or slightly convergent, arcuate; intersecondaries absent; tertiaries oblique to horizontal. Petiole 1.5-4 cm long, not channelled, appressed puberulous. Fascicles 2-15-flowered, sometimes densely clustered, axillary and below the leaves. Pedicel 2-7 mm long, appressed puberulous. Flowers unisexual (plant dioecious). Sepals four, 2-2.5 mm long, outer broadly ovate, inner elliptic to spatulate, apex rounded to obtuse, appressed puberulous outside, inner pair with broad glabrous border, glabrous inside, or with some appressed pubescence near base. Corolla broadly tubular, 2.25-4.5 mm long, tube 1.75-3 mm long, lobes four, 0.5-1.5 mm long, broadly oblong, apex rounded or truncate, long ciliate. Stamens four, fixed in the lower half or halfway up the corolla tube; filaments 0.5-1.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1-1.25 mm long, ovate, flattened, glabrous absent in female. Staminodes four, 0.3-1 mm long, lanceolate to subulate, ciliate. Disk absent. Ovary ovoid, four-locular, pubescent to strigose; style 0.75-1.5 mm long, glabrous; style-head simple. Fruit 4.5-5 cm long (excluding stipe), ellipsoid, apex obtuse or rounded, tapering at base to a stout stipe ca. 2 cm long, smooth, glabrous or minutely granular papillose. Seeds two, 3-3.2 cm long, ellipsoid, testa woody, 1.5-2.5 mm thick; scar area covering most of seed surface; embryo not seen. Field characters. Tree to 40 m high and 1.2 m diam? with large buttresses up to 5 m high, slash with sparse milky white latex. Rowers scented, yellowish. Flowering mostly Jun to Jan, fruit Aug, Dec.

  • Discussion

    The fruit is edible.

  • Common Names

    Abiurana, buyero, kamahora, zwarte jamboka

  • Objects

    Pending, M. G. da Silva 2795, Pouteria filipes Eyma, Sapotaceae (269.0), Magnoliophyta; South America, Brazil, Amapá

  • Distribution

    N Venezuela, the Guianas and NE Brazil, in rain forest on hill slopes up to 1000 m altitude.

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