Chrysophyllum
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Sapotaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Trees or shrubs, unarmed, producing abundant white latex. Leaves distichous or spirally arranged; stipules wanting. Flowers actinomorphic unisexual or bisexual, in axillary fascicles, seldom solitary; calyx cup-shaped, of (4-)5(-6) imbricate, slightly unequal sepals; corolla cylindrical, bell-shaped, or funnel-shaped, the tube shorter to longer than the (4-)5(-6) lobes; stamens (4-)5(-8), included, the filaments adnate to corolla tube, the anthers dorsifixed or basifixed; staminodes absent or rarely present; ovary of (4-)5(-12) locules with axile placentation, the style terminal, with a lobed stigma. Fruit a 1- to many-seeded berry; seeds laterally compressed with a ventral scar.
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Distribution
A pantropical genus of about 70 species, most of which are native to the neotropics.
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|