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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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Species
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Pouteria caimito (Ruiz & Pavon) Radlkofer
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PlaceOfPublication
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Stizungsb. Akad. Wissens. MUnchen 12: 333, 1882.
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Description
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Tree to 30 m. Leaves with petioles 5-17 mm long; blades obovate-oblanceolate to elliptic, acute or acuminate, 5-24 cm long, 2-11 cm broad, glabrate, the sec- ondary laterals without particular orientation, the reticulation close. Flowers 1-several per axil, sessile or subsessile (pedicels to 1.5 mm); sepals 4 (2 + 2), 3-4.5 mm long, ovate to oblong-ovate, the inner appressed-sericeous down the middle, otherwise glabrous, the outer soon glabrate; corolla cylindric-urceolate, glabrous, 4.5-8 mm long, the tube 2/3 of the total length, the lobes 4; staminodes linear, flattened, ca 1.5 mm long; staminal filaments ca 2 mm long, attached at the middle of the corolla-tube or slightly below, the anthers ca 1 mm long; ovary 4-locular, densely ascending-sericeous externally (the trichomes 1-2 mm long), the style glabrous, 2-4.5 mm long. Fruit yellow, fleshy, globose to ellipsoid, 5-10 cm long, 4-8 cm broad; seeds 1-4, the scar extending the entire length.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Brazil and Peru to Trinidad and southern Panama.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Samb6 River, Pittier 5555 (F, US).
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