''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]
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There are about 57 species.''Mimusops''.
Flora of Pakistan.
Species[ ]
References
Sapotaceae genera
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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