Abebaia Baehni

Randriarisoa, Aina, Naciri, Yamama, Armstrong, Kate, Boluda, Carlos Galan, Dafreville, Stephanie, Pouchon, Charles & Gautier, Laurent, 2023, One in, one out: Generic circumscription within subtribe Manilkarinae (Sapotaceae), TAXON 72 (1), pp. 98-125 : 121

Abebaia Baehni in Arch. Sci. 17: 78. 1964

– Type: A. fasciculata (Warb.) Baehni (≡ Mimusops fasciculata Warb.).

Emended description. – Trees; leaves coriaceous, generally glabrous above and below; leaf blades with striate venation, i.e., the secondary veins generally indistinct from the tertiaries; flowers with a biseriate trimerous calyx. Corolla tube short, less than 1/2 the corolla lobes length, 6 lobes, each with a pair of appendages 0.5–0.8 times as long as the lobes, often entire; stamens isomerous, opposite to corolla lobes; staminodes isomerous, alternate with stamens, broad (breadth/length ratio 0.5–1.6), 0.1–0.6 times as long as the corolla lobes; ovary pubescent or pilose, with 6–8 locules. Fruit single- or multi-seeded, seed scar basiventral or basal.

Diversity and distribution. – Three Pacific species, possibly more, distributed in Indonesia (Borneo, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Papua), Philippines, Palau, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji.