Chrysophyllum viride Mart. & Eichler
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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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Type
Type. Brazil, "Brasilia orientali," Schuch s.n. (isotype, W, photos F, NY).
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Synonyms
Fibrocentrum glaziovianum Pierre ex Glaz., Chloroluma viridis (Mart. & Eichler ex Miq.) Aubrév.
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots with a few short appressed hairs, soon glabrous, grey to dark brown, smooth, without lenticels. Leaves spaced, spirally arranged, 5-14 × 1.7-5.4 cm, oblanceolate or rarely narrowly elliptic, apex usually narrowly attenuate, rarely rounded or emarginate, base narrowly cuneate or attenuate, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous; venation brochidodromous, often with a marginal vein, midrib slightly sunken on the upper surface, secondary veins 17-25 pairs, usually parallel, straight or slightly arcuate, looping below the margin to form a submarginal vein, raised on both surfaces; intersecondaries long; tertiaries mostly parallel to the secondaries and descending from the margin. Petiole 1.2-2.3 cm long, channelled, glabrous. Fascicles (2-)5-15-flowered, axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves. Pedicel 7-9 mm long, with sparse appressed hairs or subglabrous. Flowers bisexual. Sepals five, 2-3 mm long, broadly ovate to suborbicular, apex rounded or obtuse, sparsely appressed puberulous outside, usually glabrous inside. Corolla 3-3.5 mm long, lobes about equalling the tube, five, broadly ovate, apex obtuse, glabrous. Stamens five, fixed in the lower half of the corolla tube; filaments ca. 2 mm long, often geniculate, glabrous; anthers ca. 1 mm long, ovate or lanceolate, glabrous. Staminodes absent. Ovary short, broad, truncate, five-locular, densely long-strigose; style 1-1.5 mm long after anthesis, glabrous; style-head capitate or minutely lobed. Fruit 1.8-3 cm long, broadly ellipsoid or globose, apex obtuse to rounded, base rounded to truncate, often contracted between the seeds, smooth, glabrous. Seeds 2-5, 1.4-1.9 cm long, laterally compressed, testa smooth, shining, 1-1.5 mm thick; scar adaxial, extending most of the length of the seed, 1.5-2 mm wide; embryo with thin foliaceous cotyledons and long exserted radicle, surrounded by copious endosperm. Field characters. Tree to 25 m high with smooth bark. Rowers greenish-white, scented, fruit maturing yellow. Flowering Oct to Dec, fruit maturing May to Sep.
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Common Names
Aguai, cacheta, caixeta, caixeta amarela, caxeta, caxeta amarela, massaranduba
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Distribution
Brazil, Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina and Parana in rain forest to 1000 m altitude on the Atlantic slopes; also present in periodically flooded forest.
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