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|accepted_name=Pouteria
|accepted_authority=Aublet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|place=1: 85, plate 33. 1775 ,
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|common_names=Egg-fruit
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sapotaceae;Pouteria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sapotaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pouteria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Galibi name pourama-pouteri
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 233
|treatment_page=page 244
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees.</b> Stems not armed, sericeous or appressed-puberulent to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate, usually clustered apically; stipules absent [present]; petiole present; blade: base acuminate to cuneate, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles or solitary flowers. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals [4–]5–6 in 1 whorl, imbricate, abaxially sericeous to puberulent; petals [4–]5–7[–9], green or white [pink or red], abaxially sparsely hairy, lobes undivided, [exceeding] shorter than corolla tube; stamens [4–]5–7[–9], distinct; staminodes [4–]5–7[–9], alternate with stamens, erect or incurved, petaloid, glabrous [hairy]; pistil [1–]5–7[–30]-carpellate; ovary [1–]5–7[–15]-locular, hairy; placentation axile. <b>Berries</b> [orange, yellow, green] brown [red, purple, black], ellipsoid to subglobose, glabrous or with residual indument near base. <b>Seeds</b> 1–6[–10], brown, laterally flattened; embryo vertical; hilum linear to ovate; endosperm [present] absent. <b>x</b> = 13, 14, 24.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Lucuma Molina</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 325 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Some species of <i>Pouteria</i> are of economic importance, including the well-known abiu, P. caimito (Ruiz & Pavón) Radlkofer, noted for fruits of commerce. Wood from some species is important in the production of furniture, heavy wood implements, cross-ties, etc.</p><!--
--><p><i>Pouteria</i> domingensis (C. F. Gaertner) Baehni, native in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola and cultivated in southern Florida, was reported as naturalized in southern Florida by R. W. Long and O. Lakela (1971) and T. D. Pennington (1990). No specimens from there have been seen.</p>
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name=Pouteria
|author=Richard P. Wunderlin;R. David Whetstone
|authority=Aublet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Sapotaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|publication year=
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|genus=Pouteria
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