Pradosia Liais (1872: 614)

Völtz, Rafael R., Alves-Araújo, Anderson & Goldenberg, Renato, 2020, Native Species of Sapotaceae Juss. in Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 430 (4), pp. 224-276 : 265

6. Pradosia Liais (1872: 614) .

Canopy tree or geoxylic subshrub, unarmed. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate and spirally arranged, clustered at the stem apex; venation eucamptodromous or eucampto-brochidodromous, secondary veins straight and arcuate near the margin and parallel or convergent and arcuate, intramarginal vein present or not, intersecondaries absent, tertiary veins percurrent, branches oblique, quaternary veins reticulate. Inflorescences axillary, ramiflorous or cauliflorous. Flowers androgynous; calyx in a single whorl of 5 sepals, free, valvate; corolla rotate, glabrous or indument restricted to the base on the abaxial surface, tube shorter than the lobes, lobes 5, undivided, margin entire; stamens 5, fixed at the top of corolla tube, exserted; staminodes absent; ovary 5-locular, lanate. Fruit bacoid, 1-seeded, smooth, velutinous, tomentose or glabrous, indehiscent. Seeds ellipsoid, testa smooth, shining; scar adaxial, narrow, covering the whole seed length.