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|accepted_name=Mimusops
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 349. 1753
|year=1753
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|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 165. 1754 ,
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|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
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--><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><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Mimusops</i> 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 <i>M. elengi</i>. <i>Mimusops elengi</i> 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 <i>Mimusops</i> are now included in <i>Manilkara</i> (T. D. Pennington 1990, 1991). <i>Mimusops</i> is characterized by elliptic or circular seed scars and eight-merous flowers.</p>
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name=Mimusops
|author=Wayne J. Elisens
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|family=Sapotaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands.
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|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
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