Biology:Pouteria glomerata

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Pouteria glomerata
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Pouteria
Species:
P. glomerata
Binomial name
Pouteria glomerata
(Miq.) Radlk.

Pouteria glomerata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is distributed from Mexico to North-East Argentina . Its greatest presence is in Brazil , where it is known as abiurana-do-igapó (wetland abiurana).[1] Mature fruit has a smooth and yellow pericarp, with four ovary locules. The subspecies Pouteria glomerata subsp. stylosa is endemic to the Amazon Basin, where it is called abiurana-roxa (purple abiurana).[2]

References

  1. Grandtner, MM; Chevrette, Julien (2013). Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press. 
  2. Alves-Araújo, A. "Pouteria in Flora do Brasil 2020". Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/floradobrasil/FB21015. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15328435 entry