Evergreen trees with milky juice. Leaves alternate or spirally arranged, coriaceous. Flowers solitary, or fascicled, axillary. Calyx 6-lobed, lobes in 2 series. Corolla 6-lobed, star-shaped, glabrous, each lobe 3-segmented. Stamens as many as corolla lobes, opposite, often alternating with another row of stamens or staminodes. Ovary superior. Fruit ovoid or globose berry. Seeds large with narrow ventral scar.

A genus with 70 species, distributed in tropical regions. In Pakistan it is represented by 2 cultivated species.

Lower Taxa

• Manilkara hexandra (Roxb.) Dub.
• Manilkara zapota (L.) P. van Royen

Related Synonym(s):

• Achras amammosa L. = Manilkara zapota (L.) P. van Royen
• Achras zapota L. = Manilkara zapota (L.) P. van Royen
• Achras zapotilla (Jacq.) Coville = Manilkara zapota (L.) P. van Royen
• Manilkara achras (Miller) Fosberg = Manilkara zapota (L.) P. van Royen
• Manilkara zapotilla (Jacq.) Gilly = Manilkara zapota (L.) P. van Royen
• Mimusops hexandra Roxb. = Manilkara hexandra (Roxb.) Dub.
• Sapota achras Miller = Manilkara zapota (L.) P. van Royen