Sapotaceae

Sideroxylon L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 193 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical Africa to S. China, Central Pacific, Central & S. U.S.A. to S. America.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Aldabra, Algeria, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Myanmar, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Society Is., Socotra, Somalia, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Virginia, Western Sahara, Windward Is., Yemen, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Spain, Tunisia

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • 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.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Sp. Pl. 1: 192 (1753).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Engl., E.M. 8: 25 (1904)
  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 89 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 192 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0