Pouteria

Pouteria is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical Americas, with outlier species in Cameroon and Malesia. It includes the canistel (P. campechiana), the mamey sapote (P. sapota), and the lucuma (P. lucuma). Commonly, this genus is known as pouteria trees, or in some cases, eggfruits.

Pouteria is related to Manilkara, another genus that produces hard and heavy woods (e.g. balatá, M. bidentata) used commonly for tropical construction, as well as edible fruit (such as sapodilla, M. zapota).

Range
Pouteria, as currently delineated, has over 200 species in the tropical Americas, from Mexico to northern Argentina and central Chile, including Florida and the Caribbean islands. Four species are found outside the Americas. Pouteria hexastemon is native to Cameroon in west-central Africa, and three species are native to Indonesia – Pouteria celebica to Sulawesi, Pouteria lucida to Maluku, and Pouteria oxyedra to Sumatra.

Uses
Many species, such as Pouteria maclayana, have edible fruits and are important foods, seasonally. Some are being commercially collected and sold on local markets or packed in cans.

Pouteria species yield hard, heavy, resilient woods used as firewood and timber, but particularly in outdoor and naval construction, such as dock pilings, deckings, etc. Some species, such as abiu (P. caimito), are considered to be shipworm resistant, but this depends on the silica content, which may vary from 0.0-0.9%. The weight by volume (at 12% moisture content) of Pouteria wood can be in excess of 1140 kg/m3 (71 lb/ft3; thus, the wood sinks in water. The wood of Pouteria species is prone to considerable movement and warping when it dries out, but in its main use, naval construction, this is not a problem, since the wood never gets really dry.

The vessel elements are relatively small and usually di- to quadriseriate; the medullary rays are fine and close together. Pouteria woods are capable of attaining an excellent polish using fine-grained sandpaper and possibly some wax. They can sometimes show an attractive figure of dark stripes against a sandy to mid-brown background colour. However, the wood is hardly used for furniture because it is so dense that items made from it would be difficult to transport. Moreover, it is nearly impossible to work using hand tools. Even using power tools, working these woods presents some problems, as well, but given some patience and practical knowledge, these can easily be solved.

For the silica to be effective against shipworms, it needs to dry to some degree to harden. When the wood is continually waterlogged, this process may take place very slowly or not at all, leaving the wood vulnerable.

Pouteria foliage is used as food by some Lepidoptera caterpillars, including those of the dalcerid moth Dalcera abrasa, which has been recorded on P. ramiflora. The fruits are important food for various animals, such as the rock-haunting ringtail possum (Petropseudes dahli).

Due to habitat loss and in some cases overexploitation, many species of Pouteria are threatened. At least 10 are close to extinction, and one – the Rio de Janeiro pouteria (P. stenophylla), which grew near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, is now extinct.

Systematics and taxonomy
Pouteria is a "wastebasket taxon", and its size is continually being expanded or decreased. The segregated Labatia, described by Olof Swartz in 1788 and named after the French botanist Jean-Baptiste Labat, was maintained as a distinct entity until the 1930s, when it was finally synonymized with Pouteria for good. Most segregated genera that were merged with Pouteria again were established by Henri Ernest Baillon and Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre.

Accepted species
Plants of the World Online currently accepts 217 species.


 * Pouteria alvesii Alves-Araújo – Brazil (Pernambuco and Bahia)
 * Pouteria amapaensis Pires & T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amapá)
 * Pouteria amazonica Radlk. – Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria ambelaniifolia (Sandwith) T.D.Penn. – Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria amygdalicarpa (Pittier) T.D.Penn. – Nicaragua to Venezuela and Ecuador
 * Pouteria amygdalina (Standl.) Baehni – southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Costa Rica
 * Pouteria andarahiensis T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Bahia)
 * Pouteria anomala (Pires) T.D.Penn. – southern Venezuela and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria anteridata T.D.Penn. – Venezuela
 * Pouteria arcuata T.D.Penn. – southeastern Colombia and Venezuela (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria areolatifolia Lundell – Guatemala (Petén)
 * Pouteria arguacoensium (H.Karst.) Baehni – Colombia
 * Pouteria aristata (Britton & P.Wilson) Baehni – Cuba
 * Pouteria arguacoensium (H.Karst.) Baehni – Colombia
 * Pouteria aristata (Britton & P.Wilson) Baehni – Cuba
 * Pouteria atabapoensis (Aubrév.) T.D.Penn. – Venezuela (Amazonas) and Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria atlantica Alves-Araújo & M.Alves – Brazil (southeastern Bahia)
 * Pouteria aubrevillei Bernardi – northern Brazil, French Guiana, Colombia, and Peru
 * Pouteria aurea T.D.Penn. – Ecuador
 * Pouteria austin-smithii (Standl.) Cronquist – Costa Rica and Panama
 * Pouteria baehniana Monach. – Venezuela to Bolivia
 * Pouteria bangii (Rusby) T.D.Penn. – northern South America
 * Pouteria bapeba T.D.Penn. – Brazil (southeastern Bahia to northern Espírito Santo)
 * Pouteria beaurepairei (Glaz. & Raunk.) Baehni – Brazil (southeastern Bahia to Santa Catarina)
 * Pouteria belizensis (Standl.) Cronquist – Mexico (Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas) to Nicaragua
 * Pouteria benai (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) T.D.Penn. – French Guiana
 * Pouteria bilocularis (H.J.P.Winkl.) Baehni – northern South America
 * Pouteria bonneriana Bernardi – Peru (Loreto)
 * Pouteria brachyandra (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) T.D.Penn. – Guianas, Brazil (Amapá)
 * Pouteria bracteata T.D.Penn. – Nicaragua to western Ecuador
 * Pouteria brevensis Pires – Brazil (Pará)
 * Pouteria brevipetiolata T.D.Penn. – Ecuador
 * Pouteria briocheoides Lundell – Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala
 * Pouteria buenaventurensis (Aubrév.) Pilz – Panama to Ecuador
 * Pouteria bullata (S.Moore) Baehni – Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Paraná)
 * Pouteria butyrocarpa (Kuhlm.) T.D.Penn. – Brazil (southeastern Bahia to Espírito Santo)
 * Pouteria caimito (Ruiz & Pav.) Radlk. – abiu – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, northern South America, and Trinidad and Tobago
 * Pouteria calistophylla (Standl.) Baehni – Costa Rica and Panama
 * Pouteria campanulata Baehni – Brazil (Amazonas and Pará)
 * Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni – canistel, yellow sapote – Mexico and Central America
 * Pouteria canaimaensis T.D.Penn. – Venezuela (Bolívar)
 * Pouteria capacifolia Pilz – Ecuador
 * Pouteria cayennensis (A.DC.) Eyma – southeastern Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria celebica Erlee – Sulawesi
 * Pouteria chiricana (Standl.) Baehni – Costa Rica and Panama
 * Pouteria chocoensis (Aubrév.) T.D.Penn. – western Colombia
 * Pouteria cicatricata T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas and Rondônia)
 * Pouteria ciliata Alves-Araújo & M.Alves – northeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria cinnamomea (Diels) Baehni – Peru (Cusco)
 * Pouteria coelomatica Rizzini – Brazil (southeastern Bahia to Rio de Janeiro)
 * Pouteria collina (Little) T.D.Penn. – Colombia and northern Ecuador
 * Pouteria condorensis T.D.Penn. – Ecuador
 * Pouteria confusa Alves-Araújo & M.Alves – Brazil (southeastern Bahia)
 * Pouteria coriacea (Pierre) Pierre – Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, the Guianas, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria crassiflora Pires & T.D.Penn. – Venezuela (Amazonas) and Brazil (Amapá and Pará)
 * Pouteria cubensis Baehni – Cuba (Sierra Maestra)
 * Pouteria cuspidata (A.DC.) Baehni – Costa Rica to Bolivia and southeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria decorticans T.D.Penn. – northwestern Venezuela, northern Brazil, and French Guiana
 * Pouteria decussata (Ducke) Baehni – Brazil (Pará)
 * Pouteria dominigensis (C.F.Gaertn.) Baehni – Bahamas, Cuba, Florida, Hispaniola
 * Pouteria durlandii (Standl.) Baehni – Mexico to Guyana and Bolivia; northeastern to southern Brazil
 * Pouteria egregia Sandwith – Colombia and northeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria elegans (A.DC.) Baehni – Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, northern Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia
 * Pouteria engleri Eyma – Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria ephedrantha (A.C.Sm.) T.D.Penn. – southeast Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil (Acre)
 * Pouteria ericoides T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria erythrochrysa T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria espinae (Standl.) Baehni – Colombia
 * Pouteria eugeniifolia (Pierre) Baehni – Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria euryphylla (Standl.) Baehni – Panama
 * Pouteria exfoliata T.D.Penn. – Costa Rica and Panama
 * Pouteria exstaminodia Pires & T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria filiformis T.D.Penn. – Costa Rica
 * Pouteria filipes Eyma – Nicaragua and Costa Rica; Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, and northern, northeastern, and west-central Brazil
 * Pouteria fimbriata Baehni – Colombia (Caquetá), Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria flavilatex T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria fossicola Cronquist – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
 * Pouteria foveolata T.D.Penn. – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
 * Pouteria fragrans (Pierre) Dubard – Paraguay and northeastern Argentina
 * Pouteria franciscana Baehni – northern and northeastern Bolivia, northern Brazil, and northeastern Brazil (southeastern Bahia)
 * Pouteria freitasii T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria fulva T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria furcata T.D.Penn. – northeastern Brazil (Maranhão and Piauí)
 * Pouteria gabrielensis (Gilly ex Aubrév.) T.D.Penn. – southeastern Colombia, Venezuela, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria gallifructa Cronquist – Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Costa Rica; northeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria gardneri (Mart. & Eichler) Baehni – Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay
 * Pouteria gardneriana (A.DC.) Radlk. – northeastern, southeastern, and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina
 * Pouteria gigantea (Diels) Pilz – Ecuador
 * Pouteria glauca T.D.Penn. – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, northern and northeastern Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname
 * Pouteria glomerata (Miq.) Radlk. – Mexico to northeastern Argentina
 * Pouteria glomerata subsp. stylosa (Pierre) T.D.Penn. – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and northern Brazil


 * Pouteria gomphiifolia (Mart. ex Miq.) Radlk. – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria gongrijpii Eyma – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, northern and northeastern Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname
 * Pouteria gracilis T.D.Penn. – Peru (San Martín)
 * Pouteria grandiflora (A.DC.) Baehni – Brazil (eastern Bahia)
 * Pouteria grandis Eyma – Guianas
 * Pouteria guianensis Aubl. – Panama, northern South America, and Trinidad
 * Pouteria hexastemon Baehni – Cameroon
 * Pouteria hotteana (Urb. & Ekman) Baehni – Haiti and Puerto Rico
 * Pouteria izabalensis (Standl.) Baehni – Mexico (Chiapas) to Costa Rica
 * Pouteria jariensis Pires & T.D.Penn. – northern Brazil and French Guiana
 * Pouteria juruana K.Krause – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria kaieteurensis T.D.Penn. – Guyana (Kaieteur Plateau)
 * Pouteria kossmanniae C.C.Vasconcelos & Terra-Araujo – Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria krukovii (A.C.Sm.) Baehni – Colombia, Brazil (Acre), and Peru (Loreto)
 * Pouteria laevigata (Mart.) Radlk. – Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, northern Brazil, and French Guiana
 * Pouteria latianthera T.D.Penn. – Venezuela (Amazonas) and Brazil (Amapá)
 * Pouteria lecythidicarpa P.E.Sánchez & Poveda – Costa Rica
 * Pouteria leptopedicellata Pilz – Costa Rica to Ecuador
 * Pouteria longifolia (Mart. & Eichler) T.D.Penn. – Peru (San Martín) and Bolivia (La Paz)
 * Pouteria lucens (Mart. & Miq.) Radlk. – Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria lucida (H.J.Lam) Baehni – Maluku
 * Pouteria lucuma (Ruiz & Pav.) Kuntze – lúcuma, lucumo – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile
 * Pouteria lucumifolia (Reissek ex Maxim.) T.D.Penn. – Colombia, Venezuela, northern Brazil, Ecuador, Peru
 * Pouteria macahensis T.D.Penn. – northeastern and eastern Brazil (Pernambuco to Rio de Janeiro)
 * Pouteria macrocarpa (Mart.) D.Dietr. – Colombia, northern Brazil, and southeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria macrophylla (Lam.) Eyma – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, northern, central, and eastern Brazil, Suriname and French Guiana
 * Pouteria maguirei (Aubrév.) T.D.Penn. – southeast Colombia, Venezuela (Amazonas), and northwestern Brazil
 * Pouteria manaosensis (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) T.D.Penn. – northern Brazil and Suriname
 * Pouteria mattogrossensis (Pilg.) Baehni – Brazil (Mato Grosso)
 * Pouteria maxima T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria megaphylla T.D.Penn. – Ecuador
 * Pouteria melanopoda Eyma – Suriname and French Guiana
 * Pouteria micrantha (Urb.) Baehni – eastern Cuba (Lomas de Cuaba and Sierra de Nipe)
 * Pouteria microstrigosa T.D.Penn. – eastern Brazil (southeastern Bahia, Espírito Santo, and Minas Gerais)
 * Pouteria minima T.D.Penn. – Venezuela (Bolívar) and Brazil (northwestern Amazonas)
 * Pouteria mongaguensis Mattos – Brazil (São Paulo)
 * Pouteria multiflora (A.DC.) Eyma – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northern Brazil, Venezuela, and the Caribbean
 * Pouteria nemorosa Baehni – eastern Bolivia
 * Pouteria nordestinensis Alves-Araújo & M.Alves – northeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria nudipetala T.D.Penn. – southeastern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria oblanceolata Pires – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, French Guiana, and northern and northeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria obscura (Huber) Baehni – Brazil (Pará)
 * Pouteria opposita (Ducke) T.D.Penn. – Peru and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria oppositifolia (Ducke) Baehni – Brazil (Pará and Amapá)
 * Pouteria orinocoensis (Aubrév.) T.D.Penn. – central and southern Venezuela
 * Pouteria oxyedra (Miq.) Baehni – Sumatra
 * Pouteria oxypetala T.D.Penn. – Brazil (southeastern Bahia to eastern São Paulo)
 * Pouteria pachycalyx T.D.Penn. – eastern Brazil
 * Pouteria pachyphylla T.D.Penn. – northern Brazil (Amazonas and Rondônia)
 * Pouteria pallens T.D.Penn. – northern Brazil (Rondônia)
 * Pouteria pallida (C.F.Gaertn.) Baehni – Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago
 * Pouteria pariry (Ducke) Baehni – northern Brazil
 * Pouteria penicillata Baehni – Guyana
 * Pouteria pentamera T.D.Penn. – Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria peruviensis (Aubrév.) Bernardi – Peru (Loreto)
 * Pouteria petiolata T.D.Penn. – Colombia (Caquetá), northern Brazil (Amazonas and Pará), and central Bolivia
 * Pouteria pimichinensis T.D.Penn. – Colombia (Guainía) and Venezuela (southeastern Amazonas)
 * Pouteria pisquiensis Baehni – Peru (Ucayali)
 * Pouteria platyphylla (A.C.Sm.) Baehni – northern and west-central Brazil (Amazonas and Mato Grosso), Ecuador, and Peru (Loreto)
 * Pouteria plicata T.D.Penn. – Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and northern, northeastern, and west-central Brazil
 * Pouteria polycarpa (Rusby) Baehni – Bolivia
 * Pouteria polysepala T.D.Penn. – Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria procera (Mart.) K.Hammer – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, and northern and eastern Brazil
 * Pouteria psammophila (Mart.) Radlk. – eastern Brazil
 * Pouteria puberula T.D.Penn. – Venezuela (Miranda)
 * Pouteria pubescens (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) T.D.Penn. – southeastern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria pullei Eyma – Suriname
 * Pouteria putamen-ovi T.D.Penn. – southern Colombia, northern Peru, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria quicheana Cronquist – Guatemala
 * Pouteria ramiflora (Mart.) Radlk. – Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay
 * Pouteria resinosa T.D.Penn. – northern Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria reticulata (Engl.) Eyma – southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America
 * Pouteria retinervis T.D.Penn. – southeastern Colombia, northern Brazil, and French Guiana
 * Pouteria rhynchocarpa T.D.Penn. – southern Mexico (Veracruz and Oacaca)
 * Pouteria rigida (Mart. & Eichler) Radlk. – southern Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria rigidopsis Monach. ex T.D.Penn. – northern and northeastern Venezuela
 * Pouteria rodriguesiana Pires & T.D.Penn. – Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil (Amapá and Pará)
 * Pouteria rostrata (Huber) Baehni – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern and west-central Brazil
 * Pouteria rufotomentosa (Lundell) T.D.Penn. – Mexico (Oaxaca) and Guatemala
 * Pouteria sagotiana (Baill.) Eyma – Guianas and northern Brazil (Amapá)
 * Pouteria salicifolia (Spreng.) Radlk. – southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina
 * Pouteria samborae Alves-Araújo & Mônico – Brazil (Espírito Santo)
 * Pouteria sambuensis (Pittier) Baehni – Panama
 * Pouteria sapota (Jacq.) H.E.Moore & Stearn – mamey sapote – Mexico and Central America
 * Pouteria scabritesta T.D.Penn. – Ecuador
 * Pouteria sclerocarpa (Pittier) Cronquist – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru
 * Pouteria scrobiculata Monach. ex T.D.Penn. – Colombia (Caquetá), Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria semecarpifolia (Pierre ex Duss) Pierre – Leeward Islands and Windward Islands
 * Pouteria sessiliflora (Sw.) Poir. – Cuba and Hispaniola
 * Pouteria sessilis T.D.Penn. – Peru (Loreto)
 * Pouteria silvestris T.D.Penn. – Costa Rica (Heredia), Colombia (Chocó), and Ecuador
 * Pouteria simulans Monach. – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru
 * Pouteria singularis T.D.Penn. – Venezuela, northern Brazil, and French Guiana
 * Pouteria sipapoensis T.D.Penn. – Venezuela (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria speciosa (Ducke) Baehni – Colombia, northern Brazil, Guyana, and French Guiana
 * Pouteria spicata J.F.Morales – Costa Rica
 * Pouteria squamosa Cronquist – southern Mexico (southern Veracruz and Oaxaca) and Guatemala
 * Pouteria stenophylla Baehni – southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) (extinct)
 * Pouteria stipitata Cronquist – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and northern Brazil (Rondônia)
 * Pouteria stipulifera T.D.Penn. – northern Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria stylifera T.D.Penn. – northern Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria subcaerulea Pierre ex Dubard – eastern Bolivia and west-central and southeastern Brazil
 * Pouteria subrotata Cronquist – Nicaragua to Venezuela and Peru
 * Pouteria subsessilifolia Cronquist – northeastern Brazil (Bahia)
 * Pouteria surumuensis Baehni – Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, northern Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia
 * Pouteria synsepala Popovkin & A.D.Faria – northeastern Brazil (Bahia)
 * Pouteria tarapotensis (Eichler ex Pierre) Baehni – Peru and western Bolivia
 * Pouteria tarumanensis Pires – northern Brazil (Amazonas: near Manaus)
 * Pouteria tenuisepala Pires & T.D.Penn. – French Guiana and northern Brazil (Amapá and Pará)
 * Pouteria torta (Mart.) Radlk. – Abiurana – southern Mexico to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil
 * subsp. tuberculata (Sleumer) T.D.Penn. – Red Abiorana – southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, northern Brazil, and French Guiana


 * Pouteria trifida Alves-Araújo & M.Alves – northeastern Brazil (southeastern Bahia)
 * Pouteria trigonosperma Eyma – Guyana and Suriname
 * Pouteria trilocularis Cronquist – Costa Rica and Colombia, Venezuela, northern and west-central Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia
 * Pouteria triplarifolia C.K.Allen ex T.D. Pennington – Costa Rica (Puntarenas)
 * Pouteria ucuqui Pires & R.E.Schult. – southeastern Colombia, Venezuela, and northern Brazil
 * Pouteria undulatifolia Rizzini – west-central Brazil
 * Pouteria validinervis (Sleumer) Baehni – Ecuador
 * Pouteria valparadisaea (Molina) ined. – central Chile (Valparaiso)
 * Pouteria velutinicarpa Alves-Araújo & M.Alves – Brazil (southeastern Bahia)
 * Pouteria venosa (Mart.) Baehni – Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, and northern, eastern, and southern Brazil
 * subsp. amazonica T.D.Penn. – Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, and northern and eastern Brazil


 * Pouteria vernicosa T.D.Penn. – southeastern Colombia, northern Brazil (Amazonas), and Peru (Huánuco)
 * Pouteria virescens Baehni – asipoko – Guyana, French Guiana, and northern Brazil (Amazonas)
 * Pouteria viridis (Pittier) Cronquist – southern Mexico (Veracruz and Chiapas) to Costa Rica.
 * Pouteria williamii (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) T.D.Penn. – Colombia (Amazonas), northern Brazil (Amazonas), and French Guiana

Formerly placed here

 * Aningeria adolfi-friederici (as P. adolfi-friederici)
 * Aningeria altissima (as P. altissima)
 * Aningeria pseudoracemosa (as P. pseudoracemosa)
 * Chromolucuma congestifolia (as P. congestifolia)
 * Englerophytum magalismontanum (as P. magalismontana)
 * Pichonia daenikeri (as P. daenikeri)
 * Planchonella australis (as P. australis)
 * Planchonella contermina (as P. contermina)
 * Planchonella costata (as P. costata)
 * Planchonella eerwah (as P. eerwah)
 * Planchonella kaalaensis (as P. kaalaensis)
 * Planchonella myrsinoides (as P. myrsinoides)
 * Planchonella myrsinifolia subsp. howeana (as P. howeana)
 * Planchonella maclayana (as P. maclayana)
 * Planchonella malaccensis (as P. malaccensis)
 * Planchonella obovata (as P. obovata)
 * Planchonella sandwicensis (as P. sandwicensis)
 * Pleioluma balansana (as P. brevipedicellata)
 * Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit, as P. dulcifica)

Synonyms
Due to the uncertainty regarding its actual content, the number of synonyms of Pouteria is massive. Plants of the World Online currently treats the following genera as synonyms.


 * Barylucuma Ducke (1925)
 * Caleatia Mart. ex Steud. (1841), pro syn.
 * Caramuri Aubrév. & Pellegr. (1961)
 * Chaetocarpus Schreb. (1789), nom. rej.
 * Discoluma Baill. (1891)
 * Eglerodendron Aubrév. & Pellegr. (1962)
 * Englerella Pierre (1891)
 * Eremoluma Baill. (1891)
 * Franchetella Pierre (1890)
 * Gayella Pierre (1890)
 * Gomphiluma Baill. (1891)
 * Guapeba Gomes (1812)
 * Guapebeira Gomes (1803)
 * Ichthyophora Baehni (1964)
 * Krugella Pierre (1891)
 * Labatia Sw. (1788), nom. cons.
 * Leioluma Baill. (1891)
 * Lucuma Molina (1782)
 * Microluma Baill. (1891)
 * Myrtiluma Baill. (1891)
 * Nemaluma Baill. (1891)
 * Neolabatia Aubrév. (1972), nom. illeg.
 * Neoxythece Aubrév. & Pellegr. (1961)
 * Oxythece Miq. (1863), nom. illeg.
 * Paralabatia Pierre (1890)
 * Peteniodendron Lundell (1976)
 * Piresodendron Aubrév. ex Le Thomas (1983)
 * Podoluma Baill. (1891)
 * Prozetia Neck. (1790), opus utique oppr.
 * Pseudocladia Pierre (1891)
 * Pseudolabatia Aubrév. & Pellegr. (1962)
 * Pseudoxythece Aubrév. (1972)
 * Radlkoferella Pierre (1890)
 * Richardella Pierre (1890)
 * Sandwithiodoxa Aubrév. & Pellegr. (1962)
 * Syzygiopsis Ducke (1925)
 * Urbanella Pierre (1890)

The following genera are sometimes included in Pouteria. Their current treatment by Plants of the World Online is included here.


 * Achradelpha O.F.Cook – synonym of Manilkara
 * Albertisiella Pierre ex Aubrév. – synonym of Planchonella
 * Aningeria Aubrév. & Pellegr. – accepted genus
 * Beauvisagea Pierre – synonym of Planchonella
 * Beccariella Pierre – synonym of Pleioluma
 * Beccarimnia Pierre ex Koord.
 * Blabea Baehni
 * Blabeia Baehni – synonym of Planchonella
 * Boerlagella Cogn. - synonym of Planchonella
 * Bureavella Pierre – synonym of Planchonella
 * Calocarpum Pierre – synonym of Manilkara
 * Calospermum Pierre – synonym of Manilkara
 * Daphniluma Baill.
 * Dithecoluma Baill.
 * Fontbrunea Pierre – synonym of Planchonella
 * Hormogyne A.DC. – synonym of Planchonella
 * Iteiluma Baill. – synonym of Planchonella
 * Krausella H.J.Lam – synonym of Planchonella
 * Maesoluma Baill.
 * Malacantha Pierre – accepted genus
 * Myrsiniluma Baill.
 * Ochroluma Baill.
 * Peuceluma Baill. – synonym of Planchonella
 * Planchonella Pierre - accepted genus
 * Pleioluma (Baill.) Baehni – accepted genus
 * Poissonella Pierre – synonym of Planchonella
 * Pyriluma (Baill.) Aubrév. – synonym of Planchonella
 * Sersalisia R.Br. - accepted genus
 * Siderocarpus Pierre – synonym of Planchonella
 * Van-royena Aubrév. – accepted genus
 * Woikoia Baehni
 * Wokoia Baehni – synonym of Pichonia