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''Mimusops'' is a genus of
plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
s in the family
Sapotaceae 240px, '' Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India The Sapotaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants belonging to the order (biology), order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of ev ...
described as a genus by
Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
in 1753. ''Mimusops'' is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> There are about 57 species.''Mimusops''.
Flora of Pakistan.


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Sapotaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Sapotaceae-stub