Manilkara zapota (L.) P. Royen
EOL Text
Chile Central
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Comments: Low limestone forest; margin lands around swamps, on dry rocky hill caps, and in the intermediate zone between the broad-leaved and coniferous forests in northern Belize.
Distribution: A native of W. Indies and tropical America.
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Fl. Per.: Throughout the year.
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Small or large tree. Leaves crowded at the end of branches, ovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 x 7-12.0 cm, glabrous, subcoriaceous, midrib prominent. Flowers white, 1-1.5 cm across, long pedicelled. Sepals unequal, 3 larger than the others. Petals 6. Stamens 6, opposite the petals; staminodes as many as the petals, petaloid. Fruit usually a globose fleshy berry, 5-10 cm in diameter„ epicarp thin, rough rusty brown. Seeds 5-12, shining black, obovate, c. 2.0 cm long.
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Persistence: PERENNIAL, Long-lived
Habit: Tree
Contains the alkaloid saponine.
Holotype for Manilkara meridionalis Gilly
Catalog Number: US 861059
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): P. Biolley
Year Collected: 1909
Locality: Esparta, Costa Rica, Central America
Elevation (m): 50 to 50
- Holotype: Gilly, C. L. 1943. Trop. Woods. 73: 12.
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.