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. |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> |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://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/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.