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Taxonomy
Manilkara lososiana Kenfack & Ewango
Nomenclature
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Family: SapotaceaeGenus: Manilkara
SUMMARY
Tree to 35 m tall, bole straight, 40 cm diameter; bark grey-brown, longitudinally fissured. Leaves spirally arranged, clustered at shoot apex; stipules triangular, coriaceous, persistent, 4 - 7 mm long, to 2 mm wide at base, shortly ferrugineous-tomentulose; petiole 5 - 15 mm long, rather stout, pulvinate at the base, tomentulose; blade coriaceous, completely glabrous and glaucous above, covered with ferrugineous- tomentulose scales to glabrescent beneath, obovate to oblong-elliptic, 4.5 - 20.0 x 1.5 - 7.5 cm, apex rounded with a short, broad acumen, 0.2 - 0.5(- 1.0) cm long; midrib impressed and glabrous above, prominent and dark-brown pubescent beneath; secondary veins 12 - 20, occasionally more, brochidodromous, visible but not conspicuous, spreading from costa at angle of 600, looping about 1 mm from margin, slightly impressed on both surfaces; intersecondary nerves 1 to 3 between each pair of secondaries, parallel. Inflorescence fasciculate, in axils of leaves or fallen leaves, (1 -)4 - 8 flowered. Flowers with slender pedicels 1.9 - 3.0 cm long, not or hardly elongating in fruit, shortly ferrugineous- tomentulose; calyx of six sepals arranged in 2 whorls of 3, shortly brown-tomentulose outside, glabrous inside, those of outer whorl 4 - 6 x 3 mm wide, those of inner whorl to 6 x 1 mm, persistent in fruit; corolla whitish, glabrous, sweet-scented when fresh, drying reddish-brown, petals 6, united at the base into a short tube about 1 mm long, petals deeply 3- lobed, lateral lobes oblong, 4 - 5.3 x 1 - 1.7 mm, median lobe generally less developed, erect, about 4 x 0.6 mm, clawed; stamens 6, glabrous, in a single whorl, united basally with the staminodes and forming a ring that is united with the corolla tube, filaments c. 2 mm long, about twice as long as anthers, anthers to 1 mm long, sagittate at base, apiculate at apex; staminodes 6, alternating with and shorter than the stamens, about 3 mm long, laciniate, and sometimes more deeply divided into two laciniate lobes; ovary globose to conical, 1.0 - 1.5 mm long, pilose, attenuated into an exserted, glabrous, persistent white style c. 4 mm long; stigma punctiform. Fruit (immature) oblong, with an apiculus formed by the persistent style and with the persistent sepals at the base, 1.0 - 2.5 cm long, 0.9 - 1.5 cm thick, densely ferrugineous-tomentulose; seeds unknown.