Ecclinusa Martius (1839: 2)

Völtz, Rafael R., Alves-Araújo, Anderson & Goldenberg, Renato, 2020, Native Species of Sapotaceae Juss. in Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 430 (4), pp. 224-276 : 243

3. Ecclinusa Martius (1839: 2) .

Canopy tree, unarmed. Stipules present, caducous, leaving a scar. Leaves alternate and spirally arranged, loosely clustered or clustered at the stem apex; venation eucamptodromous, secondary veins straight and arcuate near the margin, parallel, intramarginal vein absent, intersecondaries absent, tertiary veins percurrent, branches oblique, quaternary veins inconspicuous. Inflorescences ramiflorous. Flowers unisexual (monoecious); calyx in a single whorl of 5–(6) sepals, free, valvate; corolla cyathiform, glabrous or pubescent at the top of tube on the adaxial surface, tube shorter than the lobes, lobes 5–(6), undivided, margin entire; stamens 5, fixed at the top of corolla tube, included, absent in the pistillate flower; staminodes absent; ovary 5-locular, lanate. Fruit bacoid, 4–5-seeded, immature velutinous, ripening glabrous with tufts of residual loose indumentum, indehiscent. Seed ellipsoid, laterally compressed, testa smooth, shining; scar adaxial, narrow, covering the whole seed length.