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Taxon: Lucuma mammosa auct.

Synonym of Pouteria sapota (Jacq.) H. E. Moore & Stearn

Genus: Lucuma
Family: Sapotaceae
Nomen number: 403426
Comment: non Lucuma mammosa C. F. Gaertn., an illegitimate, superfluous name (Vienna ICBN Art. 52) originally based on Achras mammosa L., also an illegitimate, superfluous name homotypic to Manilkara zapota
Name verified on: 20-Nov-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Feb-2009
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME. (previously associated with 1 accession)

References:

  • Moore, H. E., Jr. & W. T. Stearn. 1967. The identity of Achras zapota L. and the names for the sapodilla and the sapote. Taxon 16:383.
  • Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:493.
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Check other databases for Lucuma mammosa auct.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?403426 (09 February 2010)

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