Sapotaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Sapotaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Family Description - Fls regular, perfect, hypogynous, sympetalous, usually 5-merous, the sep distinct or nearly so, imbricate, the cor-lobes imbricate and often with secondary lobes or appendages; stamens attached to the cor-tube, in 1–3 whorls, often some of them reduced to staminodes, at least one anther- bearing whorl opposite the cor-lobes; ovary with a single axile or axile-basal ovule in each of the 5(2–14+) locules; fr fleshy, indehiscent; seeds large, commonly with a large, excavated scar of attachment; trees or shrubs with milky juice and with simple, mostly alternate, mostly entire, usually exstipulate lvs and mostly small fls borne (singly or) in small cymose clusters at the nodes. 50+/1100.
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Common Names
The sapodilla family