Labourdonnaisia Bojer

Randriarisoa, Aina, Naciri, Yamama, Armstrong, Kate, Boluda, Carlos Galan, Dafreville, Stephanie, Pouchon, Charles & Gautier, Laurent, 2023, One in, one out: Generic circumscription within subtribe Manilkarinae (Sapotaceae), TAXON 72 (1), pp. 98-125 : 122

Labourdonnaisia Bojer in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 9: 295. 1842

– Type (designated by Baehni in Boissiera 11: 147. 1965): L. sarcophleia Bojer (= L. calophylloides Bojer ). = Faucherea Lecomte in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 26: 245. 1920, syn. nov. – Lectotype (designated by Aubréville in Adansonia, ser. 2, 11: 280. 1971): F. hexandra (Lecomte) Lecomte (≡ Labourdonnaisia hexandra Lecomte ).

Emended description. – Trees; leaves coriaceous; leaf blades with striate venation, i.e., the secondaries generally indistinct from the tertiaries; flowers with a biseriate trimerous calyx. Corolla tube generally very short [tube/lobe ratio 0.05–0.3 (0.7)], lobes 6–18, appendages absent, rarely vestigial; stamens isomerous, opposite with respect to corolla lobes; staminodes absent or vestigial and in that case isomerous and alternate with stamens, 0.1–0.3 times as long as the corolla lobes; ovary pubescent or pilose, with 6–10 locules. Fruit generally single-seeded, seed scar ovate, basiventral.

Diversity and distribution. – Seventeen described species from Madagascar and the Mascarenes, probably several more.