Indumentum of microscopic tshaped, yshaped or medifixed hairs, often reddishbrown on young leaves and branchlets. Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order ericales. Pennington trees or shrubs, usually producing latex. Sapotaceae tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit family sapotaceae, sapodilla family dicot family, magnoliopsid. Phylogeny and generic limits in the niemeyera complex of. The family includes about 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in around. The plant list includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus micropholis. Phylogeny and generic limits in the niemeyera complex of new. Sapotaceae is a largely tropical family of evergreen trees and shrubs.
The fruit of the satinleaf is much smaller than the caimito, just a little dark purple berry, about an inch in diameter. Hosted by the usgs core science analytics and synthesis. Whether youre a student, an educator, or a lifelong learner, can put you on the path. Pdf phylogeny, character evolution, and classification of. The plant list includes 76 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus micropholis. There are several groups in the family with distinctive geographical distributions. Pdf sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants that known with wide range of chemical constituents like saponins. Sapotaceae in world checklist of selected plant families.
Leaves spirally arranged or alternate and distichous, rarely opposite, sometimes crowded at apex of branchlets. To add an article to this category, use sapotaceae stub instead of. The intersecondary veins tend to be fine and parallel. Information about family sapotaceae in the dictionary, synonyms and antonyms. Flowers usually solitary or in fascicles, in leaf axils or. Family sapotaceae definition of family sapotaceae by the. The arecaceae is a monotypic family in the order arecales. Page designed through the cooperative efforts of interagency itis teams. Leaves alternate, often clustered at ends of branches, simple, petiolate, entire. Therefore, our objective was to determine the farmacological activities and preliminary chemical profile of the stem bark from m. Sapotaceae simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The atlas of florida plants provides a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state and taxonomic information. Sapotaceae definition of sapotaceae by the free dictionary. The sapotaceae is a family of large, often emergent, tropical trees that have been found to be a significant presence in wet or moist lowland tropical forests.
Trees and shrubs, with milky latex sometimes produced rather reluctantly. The sapotaceae are trees or shrubs with milky sap comprising about 70 genera and 800 species that are often further characterized by the presence of reddishbrown hairs on the leaf undersides and other plant surfaces. Pennington2 trees or shrubs, usually producing latex. The leaves are usually alternate, entire, and leathery. Pouteria 200305 species, including planchonella, chrysophyllum 80 species, manilkara 80 species. There are about 5 genera in the family caesalpiniaceae.
The best known member of this family is the shea tree,vitellaria paradoxa. The bark is corky, leaves oblong and fruits are ellipsoidal, 45 cm long, with fleshy pulp and usually one seed. Kukachka, botanist1 forest products laboratory,2 forest service u. Mahua flower are used as a food as well as used as an exchanger in tribal and rural areas. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Share your knowledge share your word file share your pdf file share your.
The families listed below differ from sapotaceae as follows. Their distribution is pantropical many species produce edible fruits, or white bloodsap that is used to cleanse dirt, organically and manually, while others have other economic uses. Medium sized, yellow skinned fruit, about two inches across, bearing many similarities to the sapodilla. Leaves spirally arranged or alternate and distichous, rarely opposite, sometimes. The below mentioned article provides an overview on family caesalpiniaceae. Butyrospermum paradoxum sapotaceae, a small deciduous tree usually reaching a height of 715 m but may reach 25 m and a trunk diameter up to 2 m. One important component of the islands native flora is the plant family sapotaceae in the order ericales anderberg et al. A family of dicotyledonous plants in the order ebenales characterized by a welldeveloped latex system. It is widely known as butter nut tree is a large size tree.
The family includes about 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera 3575, depending on generic definition. Join our friendly community that shares tips and ideas for gardens, along with seeds and plants. Many species produce edible fruits, or white bloodsap that is used to cleanse dirt, organically. Trees, shrubs, rarely geoxylic suffrutices, sometimes spiny. The following is terry penningtons classification of sapotaceae, from the genera of sapotaceae 1991 which is presented as a contrast to the emerging classification on the main taxa pages. Sapotaceae are easy to identify to family and notoriously difficult to identify to genus or species. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. The flowers are mostly regular with free parts, and the ovary is superior. We analyzed nuclear ets, its and chloroplast trnhpsba, trnsg sequence data, and 42 morphological characters, using a nearcomplete taxon sampling. The oil is used in soap and candle making, cosmetics, and as an ingredient in the fillings used for chocolate cream. This circular will introduce the sideroxylon species native to north america. The sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order ericales. Most of the species are differentiated only by reproductive characters, and some trees in this family can go decades without fruiting. Like the rest of sapotaceae, the niemeyera complex comprises woody taxa ranging in habit from shrubs to.
Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. This page was last edited on 11 october 2019, at 20. Lecythidaceae, or the brazil nut family, is a pantropical group of evergreen trees of about 25 genera and 310 species. It is well distributed at low and medium altitudes from the south of mexico to northern argentina and.
Sapotaceae is one of the latexyielding families, known for the production of gutta percha. Sepals 48, in two isomerous whorls or 5 in one whorl, free or slightly united at the base, imbricate persistent. This category is for stub articles relating to plants of the family sapotaceae. Sapotaceae definition is a family of trees or shrubs order ebenales that are widely distributed in tropical regions and have milky juice, coriaceous leaves, and axillary flowers with stamens in two or three whorls borne on the corolla and often in alternation with staminodia and a superior 2celled to manycelled ovary followed by often edible fleshy fruits. The website also provides access to a database and images of herbarium specimens found at the university of south florida and other herbaria. The genera are poorly defined, but there are about 116 of them, with 1100 species. Sapotaceae is one of the latexyielding families, known for the production of gutta percha, chicle chewing gum, timber. Pages in category sapotaceae stubs the following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 473 total. Strict consensus of three mp trees of sapotaceae from a parsimony successive weighting analysis of. Sapotaceae definition of sapotaceae by merriamwebster. This is a relative of star apple caimito chrysophyllum cainito which is a popular fruit, well known among the people of the caribbean. Part of the the families and genera of vascular plants book series families genera, volume 6. Sideroxylon, belonging to the pantropical family sapotaceae sapodilla family.
Pdf phylogeny, character evolution, and classification. Three subfamilies were proposed by swenson and anderberg in contrast to the five tribes recognized by t. The brazil nut group includes about 10 genera and 215 species, all neotropical. Leaves spirally arranged, or alternate and distichous, less frequently opposite or verticillate, simple, entire or very rarely spinous. While every effort has been made to provide the most reliable and uptodate information available, ultimate legal requirements with respect to species are contained in. We present the first cladistic study of the largely tropical family sapotaceae based on both. Click download or read online button to get sapotaceae book now. The family contains several commercially important species such as coconuts, area nuts and date palms, as well as a large number of. The board of trustees of the royal botanic gardens, kew. These are primarily included because names of species rank are. This is a tropical evergreen tree found mostly in southeastern asia and some parts of northern australia.
Department of agricultureintroduction the genus manilkara was described by adanson in 1763 but was generally reduced to the earlier described 1753mimusops of linneaus. Itis taxonomy is based on the latest scientific consensus available, and is provided as a general reference source for interested parties. Share your knowledge share your word file share your pdf file share your ppt file. Proper usage and audio pronunciation of the word family sapotaceae. Sapotaceae article about sapotaceae by the free dictionary. It is known by different names, or in tamil, bullet wood or spanish cherry in english. Indumentum of malpighiaceous hairs, rarely mixed with simple hairs. From the sapotaceae family, the star apple chrysophyllum cainito l. Sapotaceae synonyms, sapotaceae pronunciation, sapotaceae translation, english dictionary definition of sapotaceae. Sapotaceae botanical illustrations wikimedia commons.
We do not intend the plant list to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The family includes about 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in around 65 genera 3575, depending on generic definition. There are 53 genera and about 1,100 species in the family, but generic limits in the family are notoriously difficult and changeable.
Many species yield valuable timbers, and some produce useful latex chewing gum, gutta percha. Antioxidant, antibacterial, leishmanicidal and trypanocidal. Sapotaceae sapodilla, a family of dicotyledonous plants including mostly evergreen trees and shrubs. Species of sapotaceae contained within the plant list belong to 58 plant genera. Manilkara rufula belongs to family sapotaceae and has received little attention regarding its pharmacological properties and chemical composition. Revision of the sapotaceae of the malaysian area in a wider sense. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. It is widely distributed in the south asian countries. The family is widespread throughout the tropics and has economically important species.
To add an article to this category, use sapotaceaestub instead of. The fruit is a berry with 1 or a few big, hard seeds. Madhucalongifolia member of the family sapotaceae was studied for its immunomodulatory activity on albino mice in the present study. Mahua seeds are rich in edible fats so they have economic importance. The leaves are simple, coriaceous, alternate or rarely opposite, usually entire, with or without stipules. A list of all accepted names in sapotaceae is available in csv format.
This page was last edited on 23 december 2019, at 03. Sapotaceaesaptasee botany a family of dicotyledonous plants in the order ebenales characterized by a welldeveloped latex system. A taxonomic family within the order ericales many tropical trees, species of which yield latex or edible oils. Chrysophylloideae in australia and new caledonia do not correspond to natural groups. Petals 48, more or less united, in one whorl or more rarely double the number of sepals in two whorls, united in semifunnel shaped rotate or lenceolate corolla, corolla lobes imbricate or contorted in bud, rarely petals with dorsal appendages which resemble.
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