Sapotaceae: Gamopetalae

Trees and shrubs with laticiferous vessels; Leaves, flowers and fruits often clothed with hairs; flower hermaphrodite, hypogynous, actinomorphic; sepals 2-8 in two isomerous whorls or 5 in one whorl; pelals 4-8 gamopetalous in one whorl, rarely double the sepals in two whorls; stamens epipetalous in 2-3 whorls, the outer antisepalous whorl reduced to staminodes or absent; carpels many, syncarpous; ovary superior, completely separated, many chambered, axile placentation.