Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pouteria sapota
mamey serrano, mamey colorado, mamey sapote, mamey apple, mammee sapote, marmalade fruit
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Ebenales
Family
Sapotaceae
Genus
Pouteria
Species
sapota
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Sideroxylum sapota Jacq.
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2006
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- D'Arcy, W.G. (1987) Flora of Panama. Checklist and Index. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 17(1): i–xxx, 1–328; 18(2): i–ix, 1–672.
- Pennington, T.D. (1990) Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. 52: 1–771.
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pouteria sapota", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=4273. Accessed 21 June 2025.