Lucuma

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Sapotaceae

• Scientific Name

  Lucuma

• Description

  Description - Trees, or some species shrubs- the leaves mostly coriaceous, the small flowers in axillary or lateral glomerules, or solitary. Calyx-segment- usually 4 or 5, strongly imbricated. Corolla urn-shaped, the tube short, the 4, 5 or 6 lobes imbricated. Stamens 4, 5 or 6, borne on the corolla-tube opposite its lobes, the filaments short or slender. Staminodes linear or scale-like, borne at the sinuses of the corolla. Ovary 2-6-celled, mostly villous; style subulate or conic. Fruit a berry, the pericarp fleshy or thin. Seeds 1-5. [Peruvian name.] Fifty species or more, mostly of tropical America, a few Australasian. Type species: Lucuma bifera Molina.