- Source: Planchonella rufocostata
Planchonella rufocostata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. As with other species in the same genus, it possesses stamens that are located below (and rarely in) the tube orifice; a multi-seeded fruit, as well as foliaceous cotyledons embedded in endosperm.
References
Further reading
Munzinger, Jérôme, and Ulf Swenson. "Three new species of Planchonella Pierre (Sapotaceae) with a dichotomous and an online key to the genus in New Caledonia." Adansonia 31.1 (2009): 175–189.
Swenson, Ulf, Igor V. Bartish, and Jérôme Munzinger. "Phylogeny, diagnostic characters and generic limitation of Australasian Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae, Ericales): evidence from ITS sequence data and morphology." Cladistics 23.3 (2007): 201–228.
External links
"Planchonella rufocostata". The Encyclopedia of Life.
"Planchonella rufocostata". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
