View source for Mimusops ← Mimusops You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Mimusops |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=1: 349. 1753 |year=1753 }}{{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Pl. ed. |place=5, 165. 1754 , }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Sapotaceae;Mimusops |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sapotaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mimusops]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek mimo, ape, and ops, face, alluding to appearance of flower |volume=Volume 8 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 233 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>[shrubs]. <b>Stems</b> not armed, glabrate or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate; stipules caducous; petiole present; blade: base rounded, cuneate, or attenuate, apex rounded, retuse, acute, or acuminate to cuspidate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate [hairy] abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles or solitary flowers. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 8 in 2 whorls of 4, outer valvate, larger, inner imbricate, [glabrate] densely hairy abaxially; petals (7–)8, white to yellow or pink, glabrous or hairy, lobes longer than corolla tube, each divided into 1 median and 2 lateral segments, median segment equaling or longer than laterals; stamens (7–)8, distinct distal to corolla tube; staminodes (7–)8, alternating with stamens, inflexed, petaloid, lanceolate, hairy; pistil (7–)8-carpellate; ovary (7–)8-locular, hairy; placentation basal or basiventral. <b>Berries</b> yellow to orange, subglobose, [glabrous] glabrate. <b>Seeds</b> 1[–6], [buff] brown to black, laterally compressed; hilum circular [elliptic]; embryo vertical; endosperm present. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Mimusops is not native in the New World. Three species are cultivated commonly in the Neotropics: M. balata C. F. Gaertner, M. coriacea (A. de Candolle) Miquel and M. elengi. Mimusops elengi is naturalized and described here, whereas M. balata and M. coriacea apparently are becoming naturalized in southern Florida. American and West Indian species formerly placed in Mimusops are now included in Manilkara (T. D. Pennington 1990, 1991). Mimusops is characterized by elliptic or circular seed scars and eight-merous flowers.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Mimusops |author=Wayne J. Elisens |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Sapotaceae |distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed. |publication year=1753; |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_482.xml |genus=Mimusops }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Sapotaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Sapotaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Mimusops.