Omphalocarpum

Omphalocarpum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Sapotaceae
Genus:	Omphalocarpum P.Beauv. 1801
Species
See text.

Omphalocarpum is a genus of plants belonging to the family Sapotaceae, and was first described in 1800 by Palisot de Beauvois in Ventenat, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 146. It is synonymous with Ituridendron De Wild. and Vanderystia De Wild. The genus is confined to tropical Africa.

The taxonomy of this genus is a mess. A great many names for purported species have been published, but there are probably only around six species:

• Omphalocarpum adolfi-friederici Engl. & K.Krause, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 383 (1913).
• O. agglomeratum De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 77 (1926).
• O. ahia A.Chev., Veg. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 5: 244 (1909).
• O. bequaertii De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 4 (1919).
• O. boyankombo De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 81 (1926).
• O. bracteatum Baudon, Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, IV, 7: 29 (1929).
• O. brieyi De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 6 (1919).
• O. busange De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 84 (1926).
• O. cabrae De Wild., Miss. Ém. Laurent 1: 421 (1907).
• O. claessensii De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 86 (1926).
• O. elatum Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 16 (1875).
• O. ghesquierei De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 87 (1926).
• O. lecomteanum Pierre ex Engl., Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzen-Fam. 8: 15 (1904).
• O. lescrauwaetii De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 8 (1919).
• O. lujai De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 10 (1919).
• O. massoko Baudon, Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, IV, 7: 27 (1929).
• O. mayumbense Greves, J. Bot. 65(Suppl. 2): 70 (1927).
• O. mortehanii De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 11 (1919).
• O. ogouense Pierre ex Engl., Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzen-Fam. 8: 17 (1904).
• O. pachysteloides Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalziel, Fl. W. Trop. Afr. 2: 13 (1931).
• O. pedicellatum De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 12 (1919).
• O. procerum P.Beauv., Fl. Oware 1: 10 (1805).
• O. sankuruense De Wild., Miss. Ém. Laurent 1: 419 (1907).
• O. sphaerocarpum De Wild., Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 7(Suppl.): 14 (1919).
• O. strombocarpum Y.B.Harv. & Lovett, Kew Bull. 54: 198 (1999).
• O. torosum Baudon, Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, IV, 7: 30 (1929).
• O. vermoesenii De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 4: 97 (1926).

Sources

• Kew Database