Pouteria hotteana (Urb. & Ekman) Baehni
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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
Labatia hotteana Urb. & Ekman
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Description
Species Description - Tree; young shoots minutely appressed puberulous at first, soon glabrous, pale brown, smooth, lenticels absent. Leaves clustered, spirally arranged, 7.5-16 × 4.5-8.5 cm, broadly elliptic-obovate, apex rounded, base obtuse, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; venation brochidodromous-eucamptodromous, midrib not raised on the upper surface, secondary veins 9-11 pairs, widely spreading, almost at right angles to the midrib, parallel, straight or slightly arcuate; intersecondaries short; tertiaries oblique (at right angles to the secondaries), conspicuous; quaternaries indistinct. Petiole 0.7-1 cm long, not channelled, glabrous. Flowers unknown. Fruit sessile, 3-4 cm diam., globose, shortly apiculate, smooth or sparsely tuberculate. Seeds 2-4, ca. 2.5 cm long, plano-convex or shaped like the segment of an orange, testa 0.4-2 mm thick; scar adaxial, covering about three quarters of the seed surface; embryo with plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle included; endosperm absent. Field characters. Tree to 15 m high and 25 cm diam. with milky latex. Fruit brown, woody, in Jul.
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Common Names
almendron
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Objects
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Distribution
Haiti, in forest over limestone, around 1200 m altitude, and also in the Maricao forest, Puerto Rico.
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