Chrysophyllum oliviforme - L.
Satinleaf
Other Common Names: satinleaf
Taxonomic Status: Accepted
Related ITIS Name(s): Chrysophyllum oliviforme L. (TSN 501507)
Unique Identifier: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.146601
Element Code: PDSPT02040
Informal Taxonomy: Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Sapodilla Family
 
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus
Plantae Anthophyta Dicotyledoneae Ebenales Sapotaceae Chrysophyllum
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Concept Reference
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Concept Reference: Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Concept Reference Code: B94KAR01HQUS
Name Used in Concept Reference: Chrysophyllum oliviforme
Conservation Status
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NatureServe Status

Global Status: G5
Global Status Last Reviewed: 19Aug1992
Global Status Last Changed: 17Oct1991
Rounded Global Status: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Although C. oliviforme subsp. angustifolium is limited to Hispaniola, C. oliviforme subsp. oliviforme is common in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico. C. oliviforme is located in the moist limestone region of northern and western Puerto Rico (Little and Wadsworth, 1964). Wunderlin (1982) describes its range as "occasional in southern coutnies north to Brevard County" Florida.
Nation: United States
National Status: N3

U.S. & Canada State/Province Status
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United States Florida (S3), Hawaii (SNA)

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Range Extent Comments: Southern Florida, including Florida Keys. Also Bahamas and Greater Antilles to Puerto Rico, southern Mexico and Belize to Nicaragua. (Little 1979) West Indies including Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba.

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Distribution
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Global Range: Southern Florida, including Florida Keys. Also Bahamas and Greater Antilles to Puerto Rico, southern Mexico and Belize to Nicaragua. (Little 1979) West Indies including Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba.

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Ecology & Life History
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Basic Description: Evergreen shrub or small tree with dark purple berries and oval, dark green leaves with satin golden-brown fuzz on the underside.
Technical Description: Evergreen shrub, or tree becoming 10 m tall, the twigs pubescent; leaf-blades coriaceous, elliptic or oval, 3-10 cm long, shining above, lustrous-pubescent beneath; calyx-lobes suborbicular, 1.5 mm long; corolla white, about 5 mm wide, lobes suborbicular; berry oval, about 2 cm long, dark-purple. Genus characters: calyx-lobes mostly 5; corolla, like the calyx, often pubescent, lobes mostly 5, entire; anthers emarginate and apiculate; style wanting; stigma lobed. (Small 1933) Trunk upright with red-brown bark; flowers borne in clusters in the leaf axils; flesh of fruit sweetish, juicy, lavender-purple, somewhat gummy (Scurlock 1987).
Diagnostic Characteristics: Shrub or small tree, not thorny, with alternate, dark green, shiny, leathery, oval, pointed leaves at least 7cm long, the undersides covered with satiny golden-brown fuzz; dark- purple, oval fruits.
Duration: PERENNIAL, Long-lived, EVERGREEN
Reproduction Comments: Genus dispersed mainly by birds, also by mammals (Ridley 1930).
Terrestrial Habitat(s): Forest - Conifer, Forest - Hardwood, Forest/Woodland
Habitat Comments: In Florida, hardwood hammocks and pinelands (Small 1933, Snyder et al. 1990, Wunderlin 1982).
Economic Attributes
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Economically Important Genus: Y
Management Summary Not yet assessed
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Population/Occurrence Delineation Not yet assessed
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Population/Occurrence Viability
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Justification: Use the Generic Guidelines for the Application of Occurrence Ranks (2008).
The Key for Ranking Species Occurrences Using the Generic Approach provides a step-wise process for implementing this method.
Key for Ranking Species Element Occurrences Using the Generic Approach (2008).
U.S. Invasive Species Impact Rank (I-Rank) Not yet assessed
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Authors/Contributors
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NatureServe Conservation Status Factors Edition Date: 19Aug1992
NatureServe Conservation Status Factors Author: Blythe, K. (TNC-LASP); rev. M. Stover, TNC-HO (3/95)
Element Ecology & Life History Edition Date: 01Mar1995
Element Ecology & Life History Author(s): M.E. STOVER, TNC-HO

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References
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  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2009. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 8. Magnoliophyta: Paeoniaceae to Ericaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxiv + 585 pp.

  • Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

  • Little, E., Jr. & Wadsworth, F. 1964. Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 548 páges.

  • Little, E.L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees (native and naturalized). Agriculture Handbook No. 541. U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D.C. 375 pp.

  • Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Flora Neotropica 52: 1-771. The New York Botanical Garden, New York.

  • Ridley, H.N. 1930. The dispersal of plants throughout the world. L. Reeve & Co., Ltd., Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. 744 pp.

  • Scurlock, J.P. 1987. Native trees and shrubs of the Florida Keys: A field guide. Laurel Press, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. 220 pp.

  • Small, J.K. 1933. Manual of the southeastern flora. Two volumes. Hafner Publishing Company, New York.

  • Snyder, J. R., A. Herndon, and W. B. Robertson, Jr. 1990. South Florida rockland. pp. 230-280 in: R. L. Myers and J. J. Ewel. (eds.) Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando.

  • Wunderlin, R.P. 1982. Guide to the vascular plants of central Florida. Univ. Presses Florida, Gainesville. 472 pp.
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