Planchonella cotinifolia

Small-leaved Coondoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Sapotaceae
Genus:	Pouteria
Species:	P. cotinifolia
Binomial name
	Pouteria cotinifolia; (A.DC.) Baehni
Synonyms
	Planchonella cotinifolia (A.DC.) Dubard.; Hormogyne cotinifolia A.DC.;

Pouteria cotinifolia is an Australian tree in the Sapotaceae family. The common names include Small-leaved Plum, Yellow Lemon and Small-leaved Coondoo. It occurs in the drier rainforests from the Richmond River, New South Wales to the Wenlock River in tropical Queensland.^[1]

It belongs to the large genus Pouteria which occurs across the tropics from South America to Indonesia and into eastern Australia. A genetic analysis of material found that Pouteria cotinifolia was most closely related to Pouteria eerwah, and Pouteria australis was a sister to the two species - the three forming a distinct group.^[2]

It grows as a small tree, up to 15 metres (50 ft) tall and a stem diameter of 40 cm (16 in). It may be recognised by the small leaves, 1 to 5 cm long, 0.5 to 3 cm wide, with a rounded tip. Flowering occurs between February and March. The fruit is glossy black, usually containing one shining light brown seed. The seed has a lengthwise scar.

Two varieties are recognized

var pubescens
var. cotinifolia

References

^ Floyd, A.G., Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-9589436-7-3 page 408
^ Teguh Triono; Anthony H. D. Brown; Judy G. West; Michael D. Crisp (2007). "A phylogeny of Pouteria (Sapotaceae) from Malesia and Australasia". Australian Systematic Botany. 20 (2): 107–18. doi:10.1071/SB06011.

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[floyd-1] Floyd, A.G., Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-9589436-7-3 page 408

[2] Teguh Triono; Anthony H. D. Brown; Judy G. West; Michael D. Crisp (2007). "A phylogeny of Pouteria (Sapotaceae) from Malesia and Australasia". Australian Systematic Botany. 20 (2): 107–18. doi:10.1071/SB06011.

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