''Mimusops'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...
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, t ...
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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