Pouteria krukovii (A.C.Sm.) Baehni

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Sapotaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pouteria krukovii (A.C.Sm.) Baehni

  • Synonyms

    Lucuma krukovii A.C.Sm.

  • Description

    Species Description - Tree; young shoots densely short-tomentose with crisped, yellowish-brown indumentum, soon glabrous, dark brown, cracked and scaling; without lenticels. Leaves clustered, spirally arranged, 11-18.5 × 4.2-5.5 cm, oblanceolate, apex long narrowly attenuate or acuminate, base acute to rounded, coriaceous, glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, marginal vein present, midrib raised on upper surface, secondary veins 13-15 pairs, ascending, strongly arcuate and convergent; intersecondaries short or absent; tertiaries few, oblique; fine evident quaternary reticulum. Petiole 1-1.5 cm long, not channelled, densely crisped-tomentose, becoming glabrous. Fascicles 1-2-flowered, axillary. Pedicel 1-1.5 mm long, densely crisped-tomentose. Sepals six, in a closely imbricate spiral, outer ca. 3 mm long, innermost ca. 6 mm long, ovate to broadly elliptic, apex acute to rounded, outermost crisped-tomentose outside, inner glabrous outside, all sericeous inside, sometimes ciliate. Corolla ca. 6.5 mm long, tubular, slightly expanded at the apex, tube ca. 5 mm long, lobes five, ca. 2 mm long, ovate, apex subtruncate, glabrous. Stamens five, fixed at the apex of the corolla tube; filaments ca. 1 mm long, glabrous; anthers 0.8-1 mm long, ovate, glabrous. Staminodes five, 1.5-1.75 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, apex truncate, glabrous. Disk absent. Ovary ovoid, five-locular, densely pubescent; style 5-6 mm long after anthesis, exserted, glabrous; style-head minutely five-lobed. Fruit unknown. Field characters. Tree to 20 m high and 15 cm diam. with white latex. Flowering Aug.

  • Objects

    Pending, B. A. Krukoff 5700, Pouteria krukovii (A.C.Sm.) Baehni, Sapotaceae (269.0), Magnoliophyta; South America, Brazil, Acre

  • Distribution

    Known from two collections in western Amazonian Brazil and Peru, one on periodically flooded land, the other from nonflooded forest on yellow laterite, up to 150 m altitude.

    Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| Brazil South America| Acre Brazil South America|