Sersalisia is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1810.Brown, Robert. 1810. Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum 529-530 in LatinTropicos, Sersalisia R. Br
Past circumscriptions of the genus have included more species, several of which have now been transferred to other genera.Swenson, U., Bartish, I.V. & Munzinger, J. (2007). Phylogeny, diagnostic characters and generic limitation of Australasian Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae, Ericales): evidence from ITS sequence data and morphology. Cladistics 23: 201-228.Swenson, U., Nylinder, S. & Munzinger, J. (2013). Towards a natural classification of Sapotaceae subfamily Chrysophylloideae in Oceania and Southeast Asia based on nuclear sequence data. Taxon 62: 746-770. Recent phylogenetic and morphological studies support 5-7 species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Malesia.Jessup, L. W. A Taxonomic Revision of Sapotaceae for Mainland Australia. Austrobaileya, vol. 10, no. 3, 2019, pp. 321–82. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27025473. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.Swenson, U., Nylinder, S., Marticorena, A., Thulin, M. and Lepschi, B. (2023), Phylogenetic position and reinstatement of Gayella (Sapotaceae), a monotypic genus endemic to Chile with an Eocene origin in continental Australia. Taxon, 72: 360-374. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12826 Plants of the World Online currently accepts five species.
Species 5 species are currently accepted. Sersalisia luzoniensis – Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands, and New Guinea Sersalisia obpyriformis – northeastern Queensland Sersalisia sericea (Aiton) R.Br. - Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia Sersalisia sessiliflora (C.T.White) Aubrév. - northeastern Queensland Sersalisia unmackiana – northern Queensland
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