Mammea

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Mammea
Mammea americana1.jpg
Mammea americana fruit cross-section
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Calophyllaceae
Genus: Mammea
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Species

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Synonyms

Mammea is a flowering plant genus with about 70 species in the family Calophyllaceae.[1] Its members are evergreen trees having edible fruits. The flowers are polygamous, with a unitary calyx opening into two or three valvate sepals.[2] There are 4 to 8 petals. Berries are formed, containing 1 to 4 seeds. The leaves are rigid, coriaceous and often have pellucid dots.

Species[]

Mammea suriga flower

A least two species are found in tropical America and the West Indies (Mammea americana and M. immansueta), about 20 species, including M. africana and M. usambarensis in mainland Africa and many in Madagascar, with the remainder in Indomalaya and the Pacific region. Plants of the World Online currently includes:[3]

  1. (Kosterm.) Kosterm.
  2. Mammea africana Sabine – African mammee apple
  3. Mammea americana L.
  4. (Miq.) Kosterm.
  5. Planch. & Triana
  6. Kosterm.
  7. (R.Vig. & Humbert) Kosterm.
  8. Kosterm.
  9. Kosterm.
  10. Kosterm.
  11. (Baker) P.F.Stevens
  12. (Boerl.) Kosterm.
  13. P.F.Stevens
  14. Planch. & Triana
  15. (Merr.) Kosterm.
  16. (H.Perrier) Kosterm.
  17. Mammea grandifolia P.F.Stevens
  18. (Pierre) Kosterm.
  19. Mammea immansueta D'Arcy
  20. Kosterm.
  21. Mammea malayana Kosterm.
  22. (J.-F.Leroy) P.F.Stevens
  23. (Pierre) Kosterm.
  24. (Kurz) Kosterm.
  25. (Schltr.) Kosterm.
  26. Mammea novoguineensis (Kaneh. & Hatus.) Kosterm.
  27. (Raf.) Kosterm.
  28. Mammea papuana (Lauterb.) Kosterm.
  29. Mammea papyracea P.F.Stevens
  30. (H.Perrier) P.F.Stevens
  31. (H.Perrier) P.F.Stevens
  32. (Merr.) Kosterm.
  33. Kosterm.
  34. (Jum. & H.Perrier) Kosterm.
  35. Planch. & Triana
  36. Mammea siamensis (Miq.) T.Anderson
  37. Kosterm.
  38. Mammea suriga (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Kosterm.
  39. Mammea timorensis Kosterm.
  40. (C.T.White & W.D.Francis) L.S.Sm.
  41. Mammea usambarensis Verdc.
  42. Mammea veimauriensis P.F.Stevens
  43. Kosterm.
  44. (H.L.Li) Kosterm.
  45. P.F.Stevens

Synonymy[]

Synonyms of this genus are:

References[]

  1. ^ Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/
  2. ^ Xi-wen Li, Jie Li, and Peter Stevens, "Mammea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 512. 1753", Flora of ChinaCS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. ^ Plants of the World Online: Mammea L. (retrieved 9 April 2021)

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