6386.010 Manilkara Adans.

Description of the genus

Trees and shrubs, with leaves in terminal rosette-like clusters. Stipules 0 or soon caducous. Flowers long-pedicellate, borne in axils of current and recently fallen leaves. Sepals 6 in two dissimilar whorls of three. Corolla of six deeply 3-lobed petals joined in a tube at the base. Anthers relatively small (c.1.5 mm). Staminodes glabrous.

Worldwide: c.50 species, pantropical

Burundi: 2 taxa.

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Species		Content
obovata (Sabine & G.Don) J.H.Hemsl.
zapota (L.) P. Royen

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Flora of Botswana: Manilkara
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Flora of Malawi: Manilkara
Flora of Mozambique: Manilkara
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Manilkara
Flora of Zambia: Manilkara
Flora of Zimbabwe: Manilkara

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Manilkara
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Manilkara
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