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|accepted_name=Mimusops
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 349. 1753
|year=1753
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|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 165. 1754 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sapotaceae;Mimusops
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sapotaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mimusops]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek mimo, ape, and ops, face, alluding to appearance of flower
|volume=Volume 8
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|treatment_page=page 233
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form"><b>Trees </b>[shrubs].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem architecture;stem pubescence;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>not armed, glabrate or hairy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>persistent, alternate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="stipule duration">stipules caducous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="petiole presence">petiole present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="base shape;base shape;base shape;base shape;base shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;surface pubescence;surface pubescence;surface pubescence">blade: base rounded, cuneate, or attenuate, apex rounded, retuse, acute, or acuminate to cuspidate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate [hairy] abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence arrangement;inflorescence arrangement"><b>Inflorescences </b>fascicles or solitary flowers.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal size;whorl quantity;whorl arrangement or dehiscence;outer sepal quantity;inner sepal arrangement;inner sepal pubescence"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals 8 in 2 whorls of 4, outer valvate, larger, inner imbricate, [glabrate] densely hairy abaxially;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="petal atypical quantity;petal quantity;petal coloration;petal pubescence;petal pubescence;lobe length or size;lobe shape;median quantity;median quantity;median segment variability;median segment length or size">petals (7–) 8, white to yellow or pink, glabrous or hairy, lobes longer than corolla-tube, each divided into 1 median and 2 lateral segments, median segment equaling or longer than laterals;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity;stamen fusion;stamen position or shape">stamens (7–) 8, distinct distal to corolla-tube;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="staminode atypical quantity;staminode quantity;staminode arrangement;staminode orientation;staminode architecture;staminode shape;staminode pubescence">staminodes (7–) 8, alternating with stamens, inflexed, petaloid, lanceolate, hairy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="pistil architecture">pistil (7–) 8-carpellate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;ovary pubescence">ovary (7–) 8-locular, hairy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="flower placentation;flower placentation">placentation basal or basiventral.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="berry coloration;berry shape;berry pubescence"><b>Berries </b>yellow to orange, subglobose, [glabrous] glabrate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed atypical quantity;seed quantity;seed coloration;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>1 [–6], [buff] brown to black, laterally compressed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="hilum arrangement or shape">hilum circular [elliptic];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="embryo orientation">embryo vertical;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="">endosperm present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="endosperm presence;x chromosome quantity">x = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Mimusops is not native in the New World. Three species are cultivated commonly in the Neotropics: M. balata C. F. Gaertner, M. coriacea (A. de Candolle) Miquel and M. elengi. Mimusops elengi is naturalized and described here, whereas M. balata and M. coriacea apparently are becoming naturalized in southern Florida. American and West Indian species formerly placed in Mimusops are now included in Manilkara (T. D. Pennington 1990, 1991). Mimusops is characterized by elliptic or circular seed scars and eight-merous flowers.</p>
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name=Mimusops
|author=Wayne J. Elisens
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Sapotaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=
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|genus=Mimusops
|apex shape=acuminate;cuspidate
|base shape=attenuate;cuneate;attenuate;cuneate;rounded
|berry coloration=yellow;orange
|berry pubescence=glabrate
|berry shape=subglobose
|embryo orientation=vertical
|endosperm presence=absent
|flower placentation=basiventral;basal
|hilum arrangement or shape=circular
|inflorescence arrangement=solitary;fascicles
|inner sepal arrangement=imbricate
|inner sepal pubescence=hairy
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf duration=persistent
|lobe length or size=longer
|lobe shape=divided
|median quantity=2;1
|median segment length or size=longer
|median segment variability=equaling
|outer sepal quantity=4
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=(7-)8-locular
|ovary pubescence=hairy
|petal atypical quantity=7;8
|petal coloration=white;yellow or pink
|petal pubescence=hairy;glabrous
|petal quantity=8
|petiole presence=absent
|pistil architecture=(7-)8-carpellate
|seed atypical quantity=1;6
|seed coloration=brown;black
|seed quantity=1
|seed shape=compressed
|sepal quantity=8
|sepal size=larger
|stamen atypical quantity=7;8
|stamen fusion=distinct
|stamen position or shape=distal
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|staminode architecture=petaloid
|staminode arrangement=alternating
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|staminode orientation=inflexed
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|staminode shape=lanceolate
|stem architecture=not armed
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|stipule duration=caducous
|surface pubescence=glabrous;glabrate;glabrous
|whole_organism growth form=tree
|whorl arrangement or dehiscence=valvate
|whorl quantity=2
|x chromosome quantity=12
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