Lucuma polycarpa Rusby
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Authority
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
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Family
Sapotaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - (Fruiting specimen.) Glabrous. Branchlets stout, very leafy. Petioles to 2.5 cm. long, stout, channeled on the upper surface. Blades to 12 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, oblong, with base gradually contracted into the petiole, and blunt summit, entire, with revolute margin, thick and coriaceous, the upper surface lucid, the venation prominent beneath, the secondaries 18 or 20 on each side, with smaller intermediate ones, the venation strongly and finely anastomosing . Fruits densely spiked along the thick branchlets, subsessile, the branch strongly nodose where the fruits have fallen. Persistent calyx appressed, the sepals subrotund, 4 or 5 mm. broad. Fruit depressed-globose, 3.5 cm. broad, glabrous, the summit umbilicate. Seeds about 4, oval, lightly compressed, 1.5 cm. long, black and shining.
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Distribution
Collection data lost, but probably from the vicinity of Rurrenabaque. Fruit edible.
Bolivia South America|