Chrysophyllum ovale Rusby

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Sapotaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Chrysophyllum ovale Rusby

  • Type

    Type. Bolivia. Beni: Esperanza Falls, Feb 1921 (fr), O. E. White 1384A (holotype, NY; isotypes, A, US).

  • Synonyms

    Cynodendron ovale (Rusby) Aubrév.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Tree; young shoots puberulous with appressed or slightly spreading golden to greyish hairs, soon glabrous, greyish-brown, smooth, often densely lenticellate. Leaves spaced, alternate and distichous, 5.8-14.5 × 2.5-5.7 cm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, apex narrowly attenuate to acuminate, base shortly narrowly attenuate, glabrous, venation brochidodromous with a marginal vein, midrib slightly sunken on the upper surface, secondary veins 10-16 pairs, parallel, straight or slightly arcuate, not impressed on the upper surface; intersecondaries long; tertiaries parallel to the secondaries and descending from the margin. Petiole 4-6 mm long, not channelled, subglabrous. Fascicles 5-20-flowered. Pedicel 5-7 mm long, appressed puberulous. Flowers bisexual. Sepals five, 1.25-1.5 mm long, broadly ovate or suborbicular, apex obtuse, appressed puberulous outside, often with a broad hyaline glabrous margin, sometimes ciliate, sparsely appressed puberulous inside. Corolla 2.5-3.5 mm long, tube equalling the lobes, tube sometimes creased below the sinuses, lobes five, ovate, obtuse, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs on the tube outside. Stamens five, fixed at the top of the tube; filaments 0.5-0.6 mm long, glabrous; anthers ca. 0.5 mm long, ovoid, glabrous. Ovary broadly ovoid, five-locular, appressed puberulous; style 0-0.1 mm long, glabrous; style-head minutely lobed. Fruit 1.5-2 cm long, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, apex rounded, base tapered, smooth, glabrous; pericarp fleshy. Seed solitary, 1-1.5 cm long, ellipsoid, slightly laterally compressed, testa smooth, shining; scar broad basi-ventral, extending to about two-thirds the length of the seed; embryo with thick, flat cotyledons and exserted radicle, endosperm about equalling the thickness of the cotyledons. Field characters. Tree to 32 m high with rough bark and reddish-brown wood. Flowers yellowish-green to greenish-white, fragrant; mature fruit black. Flowering Jul to Aug, Nov to Jan, fruiting Feb.

  • Common Names

    quina quina

  • Objects

    Specimen - 273437, O. E. White 1384A, Chrysophyllum ovale Rusby, Sapotaceae (269.0), Magnoliophyta, holotype; South America, Bolivia

    Specimen - 273437, O. E. White 1384A, Chrysophyllum ovale Rusby, Sapotaceae (269.0), Magnoliophyta, holotype; South America, Bolivia

  • Distribution

    Amazonian Peru and adjacent Brazil and Bolivia. A species of wet lowland forest between 150 and 650 m altitude.

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