- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:787918-1
- Publication
- Species Plantarum
- Collation
- 1: 349
- Date of Publication
- 1 May 1753
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Sapotaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- Habitat [in India.] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 497. 1762
- Type Herbaria
- lectotype BM (Herb. Hermann 3: 23, No. 138) [Sri Lanka?]
- Chosen By
- Penn. Regnum Veg. 127: 67. 1993
Original Data
- Remarks
- Ind. or.; Malaya
Remarks
the epithet elengi is a noun in apposition; presumed to have been derived Malayalam/Tamil (see Elengi Rheede, Hort. Malab. 1: 33, t. 20. 1678)
Links
- Basionym of
- Kaukenia elengi (L.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 406 (1891).
- Same citation as
- Mimusops elengi L., Sp. Pl. [Linnaeus] (1753).