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Chrysophyllum

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Chrysophyllum is a group of trees in the Sapotaceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderEricales
  5. FamilySapotaceae
Native toArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica
Observations recorded47,006

Donella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Sapotaceae. Its wide native range extends from tropical and subtropical Old World to northern Queensland. It is found in (listed alphabetically) Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Java, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nigeria, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Solomon Island, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its genus name of Donella, is in honour of George Don (1798–1856), a Scottish botanist and plant collector, and it was published in Hist. Pl. Vol.11 o page 294 in 1891.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,133
With media
758
Family
Sapotaceae
Collections
CICY, ECOSUR, YPM, UCMP, CAS, WIS
Recorded in
Mexico, United States, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Madagascar, Colombia, Honduras

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Species
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Chrysophyllum is a group of trees in the Sapotaceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.

The genus is native to the tropical Americas, from Mexico to northern Argentina, including the Caribbean. One species, C. oliviforme, extends north to southern Florida.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chrysophyllum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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