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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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Genus
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Chrysophyllum L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. PI. 192, 1753.
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Description
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Shrubs to medium-sized trees. Leaves alternate; blades with the secondary laterals and areoles more or less paralleling the primary laterals. Flouwers several to nu- merous in each axillary cluster, occasionally solitary; sepals (4)5(6), uniseriate, often quincuncial when 5, united at the base; corolla not exceeding 6 mm in length, the lobes (4)5(6), lacking appendages; staminodes absent; staminal fila- ments attached to the top of the corolla-tube or base of the corolla-lobes; ovary appressed-pubescent, 4 to 12-celled, the ovules affixed laterally or basilaterally, the style short (less than 1.75 mm in Panama taxa), columnar, the stigma discoid, marginal lobes often evident. Fruit fleshy; seeds 1-several, the scar large, broadly elliptic to subcordate, at least 5 mm long, lateral or basilateral, the endosperm copious.
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Habit
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Shrubs to trees
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Distribution
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Approximately 40 species occur in the New World and a number of Old World species are known; two species are found in Panama.
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Reference
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Cronquist, A. Studies in the Sapotaceae, I. The North American species of Chrysophyllunm. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 72: 191-204, 1945. Cronquist, A. Studies in the Sapotaceae, V. The South American species of Chrysophyllum. loc. cit. 73: 286-311, 1946.
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Key
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a. Blades sparsely white-strigulose below or glabrate; corolla-lobes less than 1/2 as long as the tube; stigma 5-lobed; fruit to 2 cm broad ................................ 1. C. panancensc aa. Blades densely rufous-sericeous below (with a coppery sheen, even on dried specimens); corolla-lobes equalling or slightly exceeding the tube; stigma 7 to 12-lobed; fruit 3 cm broad or more ....................................... 2. C. cainito
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