Pouteria procera (Mart.) T.D.Penn.
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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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Synonyms
Lucuma procera Mart., Lucuma procera var. cuspidata Miq., Vitellaria procera (Mart.) Radlk., Urbanella procera (Mart.) Pierre, Lucuma buchananiifolia Pierre, Urbanella buchananiifolia Pierre, Lucuma oblonga Pierre, Urbanella oblonga Pierre, Urbanella cuspidata (Miq.) Pierre, Calocarpum procerum (Mart.) Dubard, Calocarpum procerum var. cuspidatum (Miq.) Dubard, Calocarpum procerum var. oblonga (Pierre) Dubard, Calocarpum buchananifolium (Pierre) Dubard, Lucuma excelsa A.C.Sm., Pouteria excelsa (A.C.Sm.) Baehni, Urbanella excelsa (A.C.Sm.) Aubrév., Achras buchananiifolia (Pierre) Bernardi
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots minutely puberulous or glabrous, becoming reddish-brown to greyish, rough, scaling, lenticellate. Leaves spaced, spirally arranged, 5.5-12.5 × 1.9-4.5 cm, elliptic or lanceolate, apex narrowly attenuate or acuminate, base shortly narrowly attenuate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, with a strong marginal vein, midrib flat or slightly raised on the upper surface, secondary veins 9-15 pairs, slightly convergent and arcuate; intersecondaries short to moderately long; tertiaries forming a loose reticulum; quaternaries finely areolate. Petiole 0.6-1.2 cm long, usually slightly channelled, glabrous. Fascicles 3-12-flowered, axillary and below the leaves. Pedicel 0.5-2 mm long, sometimes bearing 1-2 small bracts, sparsely appressed puberulous. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5-6, outer 1.5-2 mm long, inner 3-3.5 mm long, broadly ovate or elliptic, apex rounded, sparsely appressed puberulous to glabrous outside, sericeous inside, ciliate. Corolla shortly tubular, 3-5.5 mm long, tube 1.75-3.5 mm long, lobes five(-seven), 1-2 mm long, broadly oblong to suborbicular, apex truncate or rounded, glabrous. Stamens five(-seven), fixed at the top of the corolla tube; filaments 0.3-0.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers 0.5-0.75 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous. Staminodes five(-seven), 0.5-1.5 mm long, lanceolate or subulate, glabrous. Disk absent. Ovary ovoid or globose, five-locular, densely pubescent; style 2.5-4 mm long after anthesis, slightly exserted from flower bud and equalling or slightly exceeding the open corolla, glabrous; style-head simple or minutely five-lobed. Fruit 3.5-4 cm long, broadly obovoid, apex rounded, base attenuate, smooth, thin walled (often shrinking on drying), with residual appressed puberulous indumentum. Seeds 1-2, 23 cm long, broadly ellipsoid, rounded at base and apex, testa smooth to slightly verruculose, 0.4-0.6 mm thick; scar adaxial and usually extending around the base, 0.6-1.2 cm wide, roughened; embryo with plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface. Field characters. Tree to 45 m high and 1 m diam., larger specimens buttressed to 2 m high; slash with white latex. Flowers yellowish-green, without scent, fruit ripening yellow or orange. Flowering throughout the range mostly Jui to Nov, fruit Jan-Aug.
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Common Names
abiurana cascuda, cacaíto, caimito, caimito Colorado, caramuri de várzea, chupón, massaranduba de várzea, mucuri, quina quina, quinilla de bajo
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Distribution
N Venezuela and Colombia, Amazonian Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, Atlantic coastal Brazil (Bahía and Espírito Santo), occurring in wet lowland rain forest, often on periodically flooded land, rarely on permanently flooded land. Altitudinal range sea level to 700 metres.
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