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6364.000 Pouteria Aubl.

ANINGERIA Aubrév. & Pellegr.

MALACANTHA Pierre

Description of the genus

Trees. Stipules 0. Leaves obscurely pellucid-punctate; lateral nerves spanned by straight transverse tertiary veins. Flowers pedicellate, fasciculate in axils of current or fallen leaves. Calyx 5-merous in one whorl. Corolla with long tube and short lobes. Fruit a berry, 1-seeded. Seed with scar covering up to half the surface area.

Worldwide: c. 200 species in tropical America, Asia to the Pacific and Africa.

Caprivi: 1 cultivated taxon.

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altissima (A.Chev.) Baehni

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Flora of Malawi: Pouteria
Flora of Mozambique: Pouteria
Flora of Zambia: Pouteria
Flora of Zimbabwe: Pouteria

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Pouteria
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Pouteria
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Pouteria
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Pouteria
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Pouteria
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pouteria
JSTOR Plant Science: Pouteria
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pouteria
Plants of the World Online: Pouteria
Tropicos: Pouteria
Wikipedia: Pouteria
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Caprivi: Cultivated plants: genus page: Pouteria.
https://www.capriviflora.com/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1068, retrieved 29 April 2024

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