Pouteria engleri Eyma
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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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Synonyms
Chrysophyllum alnifolium Baker, Nemaluma engleri (Eyma) Aubrév.
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots closely appressed puberulous with golden-brown indumentum, soon glabrous, greyish to black, rough, lenticellate. Leaves spaced or loosely clustered, spirally arranged, 4.218 × 2.2-9 cm, broadly elliptic or obovate, apex acute to rounded, base narrowly attenuate, chartaceous, glabrous; venation eucamptodromous, midrib slightly raised on the upper surface, thin marginal vein sometimes present, secondary veins 6-9 pairs, slightly convergent or parallel, slightly arcuate or straight; intersecondaries variable in length, or absent; tertiaries mostly horizontal. Petiole 0.4-2 cm long, not channelled, appressed puberulous to glabrous. Fascicles 10-20-flowered, axillary and below the leaves. Pedicel 4-8 mm long, sparsely appressed puberulous. Flowers bisexual. Sepals five, 2-2.5 mm long, ovate or oblong, apex rounded to acute, sparsely appressed puberulous outside, sericeous inside, ciliate. Corolla shortly tubular, 3.5-4.25 mm long, tube equalling or exceeding the lobes, lobes five, broadly oblong, apex rounded or truncate, subglabrous. Stamens five, fixed in the lower half (about one third up from the base) of corolla tube; filaments 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long, broadly lanceolate, glabrous. Staminodes 0-5, 0.1-0.3 mm long, glabrous. Disk absent. Ovary conical, tapering gradually to style, five-locular, densely pubescent; style 2-2.5 mm long (elongating further after corolla falls), exserted in bud and in open flower, longitudinally ribbed, glabrous; style-head simple or minutely five-lobed. Fruit 2-2.5 cm long, ellipsoid, apex and base rounded, fleshy (shrinking on drying), smooth, glabrous. Seed solitary, 1.8-2 cm long, ellipsoid, slightly laterally compressed, rounded at base and apex, testa slightly wrinkled, shining, ca. 0.3 mm thick; scar adaxial, full-length, ca. 2 mm wide; embryo with thinly plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent. Field characters. Tree to 38 m high and 1 m diam. with simple plank buttresses to 2 m high and cylindrical bole; bark reddish-brown to greyish-brown, rough and flaking, slash orange to pinkish, with sticky white latex. Flowers yellowish-green, fruit maturing orange-yellow, the seeds surrounded by soft sweet pulp. Flowering mostly Aug-Nov, fruit Feb-Mar.
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Common Names
Grootbladig zwart riemhout , halchiballi, koesiri, konoko, Kunoko, palatali, tepoeloe, zwart riemhout
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Distribution
The Guianas to central Amazonian Brazil, in nonflooded rain forest, usually over sand, 200-800 m altitude. In Guyana it is a component of Greenheart (Ocotea rodiaei) and Wallaba (Eperua sp.) forest.
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