Sapotaceae
Omphalocarpum

Omphalocarpum elatum Miers

First published in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 16 (1875)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. & W. Central Tropical Africa. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zaïre

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Harris, D.J. (2002). The vascular plants of the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic: 1-274. National Botanic Garden (Belgium), Meise.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
  • Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • in Trans. Linn. Soc., ser. 2, 1: 16, t. 4 (1875).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Harris, D.J. (2002). The vascular plants of the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic: 1-274. National Botanic Garden (Belgium), Meise.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Feb 1, 2008 Cheek, M. [8056] Cameroon K000436349 Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Cheek, M. [5556] Cameroon K000436712 No
Jan 1, 2008 Baker, W.J. [273] Cameroon K000436582 Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Cheek, M. [5556] Cameroon K000436711 Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Thomas, D.W. [9837] Cameroon K000339752 Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Ekema, N. [904] Cameroon K000437646 Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Harris, D.J. [3780] Cameroon K000437444 Yes
Jun 1, 2007 Cheek, M. [10300] Cameroon K000460248 No
Thomas, D.W. [9962] Cameroon K001297569 Yes
Jordan, H.D. [2067] Sierra Leone K:SPC-05066.000 No
Cheek, M. [10396] Cameroon K000436741 Yes
Harris, D.J.; Fay, J.M. [1450] Central African Republic K:SPC-60374.000 No
Mann, G. [712] Cameroon K000029757 No
Thomas, D.W. [553] Cameroon K:SPC-43472.000 No
Mann, G. [712] Cameroon K000029756 No
Mann, G. [712] Cameroon K000029755 No
Thomas, D.W. [553] Cameroon K000029754 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0