Pouteria Aublet (1775: 85–86)

Völtz, Rafael R., Alves-Araújo, Anderson & Goldenberg, Renato, 2020, Native Species of Sapotaceae Juss. in Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 430 (4), pp. 224-276 : 245

5. Pouteria Aublet (1775: 85–86) .

Treelet or tree, unarmed. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate and spirally arranged, loosely clustered or clustered at the stem apex or spaced; venation eucamptodromous, eucampto-brochidodromous or brochidodromous, secondaries straight or convergent, parallel or acuate, intramarginal vein present or poorly developed, intersecondaries long, poorly developed or absent, tertiary veins reticulate or percurrent, branches oblique or horizontal, quaternary veins reticulate or incospicuous. Inflorescences axillary, ramiflorous or set in a short aphyllous axillary shoot. Flowers unisexual (dioecious) or androgynous; calyx in a single whorl of (4–)5 sepals or in 2 whorls of 2 sepals, free, imbricate; corolla tubulose or cyathiform, glabrous or with sparse hairs at the base on the adaxial surface, tube shorter, slightly equal or longer than the lobes, lobes 4–6(–7), undivided, margin entire, ciliate, papillose or seldom erose; stamens 4–6(–7), fixed at the base, in the lower third, halfway, in the upper third or at the top of the corolla tube, included; staminodes 4– 6(–7), undivided; ovary 4–6-locular, lanate. Fruit bacoid, 1–3-seeded, tomentose, pubescent, puberulent or glabrescent, indehiscent. Seed ellipsoid or laterally compressed when two or more in a fruit; testa smooth or rugulose, shining or matt; scar adaxial, broad or narrow, covering all or most of the whole seed length.