Manilkara spectabilis

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Manilkara spectabilis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Manilkara
Species:
M. spectabilis
Binomial name
Manilkara spectabilis
Synonyms [2] [3] [4]

Mimusops spectabilisPittier

Manilkara spectabilis is an uncommon species of tree in the sapodilla family.

In 1997, the IUCN were mistakenly under the impression that a specimen in the US, collected in 1899 from a site near Limón in the Atlantic coastal forests of Costa Rica was the only specimen that had ever been collected for of the species, and therefore assumed it might be an endemic to this location. Based on this supposition, the species was provisionally declared 'critically endangered'. [1] It had in fact been collected in Nicaragua in 1951 already, and after being declared 'critically endangered' it was soon found elsewhere in eastern coastal Costa Rica by local researchers.

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References

  1. 1 2 World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Manilkara spectabilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1998: e.T30672A9564527. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T30672A9564527.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Trop. Woods 1932, No. 31, 45. "Plant Name Details for Manilkara spectabilis". IPNI . Retrieved January 21, 2010. Notes: Mimusops spectabilis
  3. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 13: 465, fig. 91. 1912 "Plant Name Details for Mimusops spectabilis". IPNI. Retrieved January 21, 2010. nomenclatural synonym: Sapotaceae Manilkara spectabilis
  4. "Name - Manilkara spectabilis (Pittier) Standl". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden . Retrieved January 23, 2010.