Sersalisia sessiliflora (C.T.White) Aubrev.

Sapotaceae

Aubreville, A. (1964) Adansonia 3: 333.

Trees to 12(-18) m high and to 20 cm dbh. Twigs reddish to pale brown tomentose or felted.

Petiole 10-15 mm long; lamina oblanceolate, obovate or elliptic, 4-10(-15) cm long, 2-5(-8.5) cm wide, apex bluntly acuminate or obtuse, reddish brown felted on both surfaces when young, becoming glabrous above and leaving a persistent closely appressed hyaline indumentum below; secondary veins 4-7 pairs, tertiary veins mostly oblique, the higher order veins areolate.

Pedicels up to 1 mm long, reddish brown tomentose or felted. Calyx lobes 5, ovate, 5-8 mm long, on outside
densely tomentose or felted, on inside lightly tomentose, margins fimbriate. Corolla 7-8 mm long, lobes shortly oblong to broadly obovate, truncate or emarginate at the apex, 1.9-2.3 mm long, apical margin glabrous. Stamens c. 1.5 mm long, anthers c. 1 mm long, filaments c. 0.5 mm long. Staminodes oblong or narrowly deltoid, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Stamens c. 1.5 mm long, anthers c. 1 mm long, filaments c. 0.5 mm long. Staminodes oblong or narrowly deltoid, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Ovary broadly ovoid, sericeous, c. 1.5 mm long; style narrowly conical), 7.5-8.5 mm long, sericeous, glabrous on distal one-third.

Fruit (immature) oblong or narrowly obovoid, c. 3 cm long and 1.2 cm wide, glabrous or nearly so and bearing a thin style remnant 5 mm long. Seed not seen.

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Endemic to NEQ, known from Mt Lewis and from Mt Demi near Mossman. Altitudinal range above 900 m. Grows as an understory tree in well developed rain forest.

Pouteria sylvatica Baehni, Candollea 9: 294(1942). Lucuma sessiliflora C.T.White, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 47: 68(1936), Type: Mount Demi, alt. 3,000 ft., in light rain-forest, L.J. Brass, No. 2088; (flowering specimens); Feb. 6; (small tree, on summit of mountain).

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