Sideroxylon capiri (A.DC.) Pittier
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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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Description
Species Description - Tree; young branches tomentose with greyish or brown hairs, or puberulous or glabrous, becoming brown or greyish-white, cracked and fissured, without lenticels. Unarmed. Leaves spirally arranged, spaced or loosely clustered, 6.219.2 × 4-8 cm, broadly elliptic, oblong or oblanceolate, apex variable, often acute, obtuse or rounded and finally short-acuminate or cuspidate, base narrowly attenuate to obtuse or truncate, often coriaceous, uniformly softly pubescent on both surfaces to glabrous; venation eucamptodromous with a prominent marginal vein, midrib sunken on the upper surface; secondary veins 10-15(-18) pairs, ascending, arcuate or straight, convergent or parallel; intersecondaries usually short or moderate; tertiaries horizontal and reticulate, conspicuous; leaves usually drying pale yellow-green. Petiole (2.7-)4-8 cm long, tomentose to glabrous, strongly channelled, or the decurrent leaf margins often fused above the petiole to form a pouch, the upper margin of this sometimes prolonged to form a leafy projection. Flowers bisexual, in 5-25-flowered fascicles in the axils of defoliated nodes. Pedicel (3-)5-10 mm long, densely pubescent to sparsely puberulous, rarely glabrous. Sepals (4-) 5(-7), 2-3.5 mm long, broadly ovate to suborbicular, apex obtuse or rounded, outside densely pubescent to sparsely puberulous, inside usually glabrous. Corolla (5.5)6-8.5 mm long, tube 0.75-1.5 mm long, glabrous; lobes (4)5(-7), elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded, often auriculate at base, sometimes hooded, lateral segments absent, sparsely sericeous to glabrous outside. Stamens (4)5(-7), filaments 2.5-5.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers 2-3.5 mm long, lanceolate-sagittate, connective sometimes produced into a short apiculus, glabrous or with scattered long hairs. Staminodes 5-6 or occasionally irregular or absent, or converted into vestigial stamens with small anthers, usually 1.5-2.5 mm long, lanceolate, erose or irregular, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs at the apex. Ovary narrowly ovoid, (4)5(6)-locular, usually glabrous, occasionally appressed puberulous; style 2-3 mm long after anthesis, usually ribbed, glabrous; style-head truncate. Fruit 2.5-4 cm long, broadly ellipsoid to globose, apex and base rounded, smooth, glabrous; pericarp 2-5 mm thick, fleshy. Seed solitary, 1.6-2.5 cm long, ellipsoid to globose; testa hard, smooth, shining, 0.75-2.5 mm thick; scar basi-ventral or basal, 5-9 mm long, elliptic or lanceolate; embryo vertical or oblique, with thin foliaceous cotyledons and radicle exserted 2-2.5 mm, surrounded by copious endosperm.