Pouteria sagotiana (Baill.) Eyma

  • Authority

    Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Sapotaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pouteria sagotiana (Baill.) Eyma

  • Synonyms

    Eremoluma sagotiana Baill., Lucuma sagotiana Engl.

  • Description

    Species Description - Tree, young shoots subglabrous, greyish-rough, with numerous prominent lenticels. Leaves spaced, spirally arranged, 7-13 × 2.5-4.8 cm, oblanceolate, apex rounded or obtuse and abruptly long acuminate or caudate, base narrowly attenuate, chartaceous, glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, midrib slightly raised on the upper surface, marginal vein sometimes present, secondary veins 10-12 pairs, parallel or convergent, arcuate; intersecondaries present, short to long; tertiaries open-reticulate. Petiole 4-7 mm long, slightly channelled, glabrous. Fascicles axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves, 5-20-flowered. Pedicel 2-6 mm long, with sparse minute appressed hairs. Flowers unisexual (plant dioecious). Sepals five, partially fused, 1-1.5 mm long, lanceolate, apex acute to rounded, with sparse minute appressed hairs outside, sometimes ciliate. Corolla cyathiform, 3-3.5 mm long (male), ca. 1.75 mm long (female), tube equalling lobes in female, much shorter than lobes in male, lobes five, ovate to suborbicular, apex obtuse or rounded, glabrous, not or scarcely ciliate. Stamens five, fixed in the lower half of the corolla tube; filaments ca. 0.75 mm long, glabrous; anthers 0.75-1 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous; stamens reduced to sterile staminodes ca. 0.75 mm long in female. Staminodes five, 0.5-1.25 mm long, subulate or narrowly lanceolate, glabrous. Disk absent. Ovary slender, ovoid-conical, tapering gradually to the style, unilocular, glabrous; style 0.5-1 mm long after anthesis, glabrous; style-head simple. Fruit (not seen, description from Eyma, 1936b: 376), ovoid, one-seeded, seed with a linear hilum, without albumen. Field characters. Tree to 12 m high and 10 cm diam. with scarce milky latex. Flowers white to pale green, fragrant, fruit ripening deep violet or black. Flowering May to Oct, fruit Oct to Mar.

  • Common Names

    Achinadan, aprahoedoe, asusuchi

  • Distribution

    The Guianas to Para, Brazil in mixed rain forest over sand or laterite, ascending to 700 m altitude.

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