Pouteria cotinifolia

Small-leaved Coondoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Pouteria
Species: P. cotinifolia
Binomial name
Pouteria cotinifolia
(A.DC.) Baehni
Synonyms
  • Planchonella cotinifolia (A.DC.) Dubard.
  • Hormogyne cotinifolia A.DC.

Pouteria cotinifolia is an Australian tree in the Sapotaceae family. The common names include Small-leaved Plum, Yellow Lemon and Small-leaved Coondoo. It occurs in the drier rainforests from the Richmond River, New South Wales to the Wenlock River in tropical Queensland.[1]

It belongs to the large genus Pouteria which occurs across the tropics from South America to Indonesia and into eastern Australia. A genetic analysis of material found that Pouteria cotinifolia was most closely related to Pouteria eerwah, and Pouteria australis was a sister to the two species - the three forming a distinct group.[2]

It grows as a small tree, up to 15 metres (50 ft) tall and a stem diameter of 40 cm (16 in). It may be recognised by the small leaves, 1 to 5 cm long, 0.5 to 3 cm wide, with a rounded tip. Flowering occurs between February and March. The fruit is glossy black, usually containing one shining light brown seed. The seed has a lengthwise scar.

Two varieties are recognized

References

  1. Floyd, A.G., Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-9589436-7-3 page 408
  2. Teguh Triono; Anthony H. D. Brown; Judy G. West; Michael D. Crisp (2007). "A phylogeny of Pouteria (Sapotaceae) from Malesia and Australasia". Australian Systematic Botany. 20 (2): 107–18. doi:10.1071/SB06011.


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