Sideroxylon durifolium (Standl.) T.D.Penn.

  • Authority

    Pennington, Terence D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52: 1-750. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Sapotaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Sideroxylon durifolium (Standl.) T.D.Penn.

  • Synonyms

    Dipholis durifolia Standl., Bumelia durifolia (Standl.) Stearn

  • Description

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    Species Description - Small tree; young branches shortly pubescent with brownish-ferruginous hairs, soon glabrous and becoming greyish-brown, fissured and cracked, with large lenticels. Not spiny. Leaves spirally arranged, not or only slightly clustered, 7-9 × 2-2.4 cm, narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, apex narrowly attenuate or acuminate, base acute or narrowly cuneate, decurrent into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous; venation eucamptodromous to brochidodromous, with a strong thickened marginal vein; midrib flat or slightly sunken on the upper surface; secondaries 15-16 pairs, ascending, arcuate, convergent, slightly prominent below; intersecondaries moderately long; tertiaries reticulate; petioles 1.4-2 cm long, not channelled, slightly laterally broadened by the decurrent leaf margin, soon glabrous. Flowers bisexual, axillary, in 3-6-flowered fascicles. Pedicels ca. 5 mm long, shortly pubescent. Sepals five, 3-4 mm long, lanceolate, acute, shortly pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Corolla glabrous, ca. 4.5 mm long, tube 2-2.5 mm long; lobes five, 1.5-2 mm long; median segment ovate, acute, lateral segments irregularly acute, ca. 1.5 mm long. Stamens five, glabrous; filaments ca. 1.5 mm long; anthers 1 mm long, oblong-lanceolate. Staminodes five, ca. 1.75 mm long, ovate, erose, infolded, glabrous. Ovary slender, ovoid, gradually tapered, five-locular, glabrous; style ca. 2 mm long after anthesis, glabrous; style-head simple. Fruit unknown. Field characters. A small tree ca. 6 m high and 12 cm diam., flowering in Sept.

  • Distribution

    Known with certainty only from the type collection from Belize, Jacinto Hills in hills at ca. 200 m altitude. Breedlove 42079 collected in Chiapas, Mexico is possibly the same species.

    Chiapas Mexico North America| Mexico North America|