Sapotoideae
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Sapotoideae is a subfamily
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of the flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

 family Sapotaceae
Sapotaceae
Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera . Distribution is pantropical....

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Genera


Tribe Sapoteae
  • Autranella
    Autranella
    Autranella is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae. It contains the following species :* Autranella congolensis, A.Chev....

    A.Chev.
  • Faucherea Lecomte
  • Labramia A.DC.
  • Madhuca
    Madhuca
    Madhuca is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae.Species include:* Madhuca aristulata, H.J.Lam* Madhuca betis, J.F.Macbr.* Madhuca boerlageana, Baehni* Madhuca bourdillonii, H.J.Lam...

    Ham. ex J.F.Gmel.
  • Manilkara
    Manilkara
    Manilkara is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae. Collectively known as manilkara trees, they occur throughout the tropics. A close relative is the genus Pouteria....

    Adans.
  • Mimusops
    Mimusops
    Mimusops is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae.Species include:* Mimusops acutifolia, Mildbr.* Mimusops angel, Chiov.* Mimusops commersonii* Mimusops caffra* Mimusops elengi...

    L.
  • Northia
    Northia
    Northia is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae.The name was first published by Joseph Dalton Hooker, in Hooker's Icones Plantarum , in his description of Northia seychellana. The spelling was given as Northia on the plate, but the variant Northea in the text...

    Hook.f.
  • Palaquium
    Gutta-percha
    Gutta-percha is a genus of tropical trees native to Southeast Asia and northern Australasia, from Taiwan south to the Malay Peninsula and east to the Solomon Islands. The same term is used to refer to an inelastic natural latex produced from the sap of these trees, particularly from the species...

    Blanco
  • Payena
    Payena
    Payena is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae. It contains the following species :* Payena maingayi, C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker* Payena selangorica, King & Gamble...

    A.DC.
  • Tieghemella
    Tieghemella
    Tieghemella is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae. It contains the following species :* Tieghemella africana, Pierre* Tieghemella heckelii, Pierre ex Dubard...

    Pierre
  • Vitellariopsis
    Vitellariopsis
    Vitellariopsis is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae. It contains the following species:* Vitellariopsis cuneata Aubrév.* Vitellariopsis dispar Aubrév.* Vitellariopsis ferruginea Kupicha...

    Baill. ex Dubard

  • Tribe Sideroxyleae
    • Argania Roem. & Schult.
    • Nesoluma
      Nesoluma
      Nesoluma is a genus of flowering plants in the chicle family, Sapotaceae.Species include:* Nesoluma nadeaudii Pierre ex H.J.Lam * Nesoluma polynesicum Baill. - Keahi...

      Baill.
      Henri Ernest Baillon
      Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...

    • Sideroxylon
      Sideroxylon
      Sideroxylon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sapotaceae. There are about 70 species, collectively known as bully trees. The generic name is derived from the Greek words σιδηρος , meaning "iron", and ξύλον , meaning "wood."-Distribution:The genus is distributed mainly in the neotropics,...

      L.
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