Chrysophyllum Linnaeus (1753: 192)

Völtz, Rafael R., Alves-Araújo, Anderson & Goldenberg, Renato, 2020, Native Species of Sapotaceae Juss. in Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 430 (4), pp. 224-276 : 232

1. Chrysophyllum Linnaeus (1753: 192) .

Shrub, treelet, understory or canopy tree, unarmed. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged or distichous, spaced or loosely clustered at the stem apex; venation brochidodromous or eucampto-brochidodromous, secondary veins straight or slightly convergent, sometimes arcuate near the margim, parallel, intramarginal vein present, intersecondaries short, long or absent, interspersed among the secondaries and parallel to them, tertiary veins ramified, parallel to the secondaries and intersecondaries and descending from the margin (admedial) or loosely reticulate, quaternary veins reticulate, loosely reticulate or inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary or ramiflorous. Flowers unisexual (dioecious) or androgynous; calyx in a single whorl of 5 sepals, free, valvate or quincuncial; corolla tubulose, campanulate or cyathiform, glabrous or with sparse hairs at the tube apex on the abaxial surface, tube shorter, equalling or longer than the lobes, lobes 5, undivided, margin entire; stamens 5, fixed at the base, on the lower third, on the half or at the top of the corolla tube, included; staminodes absent; ovary 5-locular, lanate. Fruit bacoid, 1–5-seeded, smooth, glabrous or glabrescent, indehiscent. Seeds ellipsoid-fusiform, ellipsoid or suborbiculate, laterally compressed or not, testa smooth or rugulose, shining; scar basi-ventral or adaxial, broad or narrow, covering up to halfway, two-thirds or most of the whole seed length.