Sarcaulus Radlkofer, Sitzungsber. Math. - Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen 12: 310. 1882. Type. Sarcaulus macrophyllus (Martius) Radlkofer (= Chrysophyllum macro - phyllum Martius). Description. Trees to 30 m high. Leaves spaced, slightly spirally arranged or alternate and distichous, venation eucamptodromous or brochidodromous. Flowers unisexual (plant dioecious) or bisexual. Calyx has a single whorl of five sepals. Corolla globose, broadly cyathiform or subrotate, tube and / or petals weakly to strongly carnose, corolla tube equaling or slightly exceeding the lobes; lobes usually five, slightly imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens five, fixed at the top of the corolla tube, exserted; filaments short, swollen; anthers strongly inflexed. Staminodes five, thick, carnose, erect, or incurved against the style. Disk absent. Ovary 1–5 - locular. Fruit a berry. Seeds 1 - several, laterally compressed, testa smooth or wrinkled, shining; scar adaxial, full-length; embryo with plano-convex, free cotyledons, radicle extending to the surface; endosperm absent.

Published as part of Jaramillo, M. Alejandra, Pennington, Terence D., Aymard-Corredor, Gerardo A. & Majin-Ladino, Andrés F., 2026, Morphological and genetic evidence for the Sarcaulus brasiliensis complex (Sapotaceae, Chyrsophylloideae) reveals a new species from the rainforests of the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia, pp. 37-54 in PhytoKeys 273 on pages 37-54, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.273.175192