Edinburgh Journal of Botany

Table of Contents - November 2008 - Volume 65, Issue 03  

Articles

TAXONOMIC REVISION OF THE GENUS MANILKARA (SAPOTACEAE) IN MADAGASCAR

V. Planaa1 and L. Gautiera2

a1 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK. E-mail: v.plana@rbge.org.uk

a2 Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Case Postale 60, CH-1292 Chambésy/GE, Switzerland. E-mail: laurent.gautier@ville-ge.ch

Abstract

A revision of the five Madagascan species of the genus Manilkara (Sapotaceae) is presented, including a key, descriptions, diagnostic characters, ecological notes and a distribution map. Of the seven species originally described by Aubréville, Manilkara tampoloensis is placed in synonymy with M. boivinii, and M. sohihy is removed from the genus and placed within the existing Labramia boivinii (Pierre) Aubrév.

(Received July 06 2007)

(Accepted May 27 2008)

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