- Family: Sapotaceae Juss.
- Genus: Manilkara Adans.
Manilkara discolor (Sond.) J.H.Hemsl.
- Genus: Manilkara Adans.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Kenya to S. Africa.
[FZ]
Sapotaceae, F. K. Kupicha. Flora Zambesiaca 7:1. 1983
- Habit
- Tree 3–40 m. high; bole of larger specimens shallowly fluted near the base; slash pink; bark brown or blackish grey, longitudinally fissured.
- Stem
- Young stems glabrous to densely greyish–pubescent but soon glabrescent.
- Twigs
- Twigs with granular grey bark.
- Leaves
- Leaves tending to be clustered at branch ends. Lamina 3·5–7(13) x 1·5–5 cm., elliptic–obovate to obovate, apex emarginate, acute or apiculate, base acute; petiole 6–18 mm. long. Upper leaf surface glabrous, dark green, midrib impressed, very fine reticulation visible but veins not raised or impressed. Lower surface silvery–sericeous with a dense appressed indumentum, midrib prominent, main lateral nerves faintly visible, numerous, reticulation obscured by indumentum.
- Flowers
- Flowers yellow, in axillary fascicles on pedicels 3–6 mm. long. Form of flowers variable (see J. H. Hemsley, tom. cit.: 500–510, 1966); normal form as follows.
- Calyx
- Calyx c. 4 mm. long, sepals ovate.
- Corolla
- Corolla equalling calyx, tube c. 1 mm. long; each petal 3–lobed, the median segment obovate, tapering to a slender basal attachment, the lateral segments elliptic.
- Stamens
- Stamens 12 in 2 whorls; anthers c. 1·5 mm. long.
- Staminodes
- Staminodes absent.
- Gynoecium
- Gynoecium c. 3 mm. long.
- Note
- Other flower forms: corolla simpler, petals entire (lateral segments absent) or trifid, or lateral segments present but united to near the apex; stamens all, or only the inner whorl, replaced by staminodes, these filament–like or represented by dentate flaps of tissue. (Flowers with a reduced androecium, i.e. less than 12 stamens, have a reduced corolla.)
- Fruits
- Fruit up to 1–3 x 0–8 cm., ovoid or ellipsoid, initially puberulous, glabrescent and yellow when ripe, edible, 1 (2)–seeded.
- Seeds
- Seeds up to 1 cm. long.
[FTEA]
Sapotaceae, J. H. Hemsley. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968
- Habit
- Small to medium tree, height up to 30 m., with rough dark grey or blackish bark.
- Buds
- Terminal buds, young shoots and petioles glabrescent.
- Petiole
- Petioles 0.5–1.7 cm. long.
- Leaves
- Leaf-lamina oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, up to 9.5(–11) cm. long, 4.5(–5.3) cm. wide, apex rounded and slightly emarginate or rarely shortly acuminate, broadly to narrowly cuneate, coriaceous; upper surface deep green with reticulum of very fine veins, lower surface silvery-grey with dense indumentum of minute closely appressed regularly arranged hairs sometimes brownish on midrib and main nerves or midrib glabrescent.
- Flowers
- Flowers axillary, usually in clusters of 4–6 in axils of current leaves.
- Pedicel
- Pedicels 3–10 mm. long, with brown pubescence.
- Calyx
- Calyx-lobes connate near base; outer lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, 4.5–6 mm. long, 3–3.7 mm. wide, with brown pubescence externally; inner lobes slightly smaller and with less pubescence.
- Corolla
- Corolla yellow; tube ±1.5 mm. long; lobes trifid, or entire in ♀ flowers; two outer segments ± lanceolate, up to 4 mm. long; median segment ± elliptic, up to 5 mm. long, tapering to narrow basal attachment.
- Stamens
- Fertile stamens 6–12; filaments up to 3.5 mm. long; anthers up to 2.5 mm. long.
- Staminodes
- Staminodes truncate or subulate, ± 1 mm. long, or sometimes filament-like and then up to 3.5 mm. long, irregularly denticulate or with few long teeth.
- Pistil
- Ovary depressed globose, pilose; style up to 4 mm. long; stigma simple or sometimes 6-papillate.
- Fruits
- Fruit ovoid or ± ellipsoid, up to 1.3 cm. long, 0.8 cm. in diameter, puberulous when young but becoming glabrescent.
- Seeds
- Seeds solitary or rarely two present, obliquely ovoid and slightly flattened, up to 10 mm. long, 6 mm. in diameter; hilum lateral, oblique and extending to base.
- Figures
- Fig. 13, p. 71.
- Habitat
- Lowland and upland dry evergreen forest and well-drained sites in upland rain-forest; 400–2100 m.
- Distribution
- K3 K4 K5 K6 T3 T7 T8 southwards to Mozambique, Malawi, Rhodesia and Natal Province of South Africa
Native to:
Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- Eichleria discolor (Sond.) M.M.Hartog
- Labourdonnaisia discolor Sond.
- Labourdonnaisia sericea Benth. & Hook.f.
- Manilkara altissima (Engl.) H.J.Lam
- Manilkara eickii (Engl.) H.J.Lam
- Manilkara natalensis (Pierre ex L.Planch.) Dubard
- Mimusops altissima Engl.
- Mimusops buchananii Engl.
- Mimusops discolor (Sond.) Baill.
- Mimusops eickii Engl.
- Muriea discolor (Sond.) M.M.Hartog
Manilkara discolor (Sond.) J.H.Hemsl. appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1956 | Wood, J.M. [1134], South Africa | K000901129 | ||
| Buchanan, J. [684], Malawi | K000901118 | isotype | ||
| Jan 1, 2016 | Gerrard [1661], South Africa | Labourdonnaisia sericea | K000874374 | lectotype |
| Jan 1, 2016 | Gerrard [1661], South Africa | Labourdonnaisia sericea | K000874372 | isolectotype |
| Guerinzins [s.n.], South Africa | Labourdonnaisia sericea | K000874373 |
First published in Kew Bull. 20: 510 (1966)
Accepted by
- Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
- Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria.
- Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- J. H. Hemsl. in Kew Bulletin 20: 510 (1966).
- Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 526 (1961).
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