Englerophytum

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| name = Milkplums

| image = Englerophytum magalismontanum, Nelspruit.jpg

| image_caption = E. magalismontanum in South Africa

| taxon = Englerophytum

| authority = K.Krause

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web |last=Hyde |first=Mark|title=Englerophytum K.Krause |url=http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1072 |work=Flora of Zimbabwe |accessdate=13 October 2013|display-authors=etal}}

| synonyms =

• Bequaertiodendron De Wild.
• Boivinella Pierre ex Aubrév. & Pellegr. 1958, illegitimate homonym, not A.Camus 1925 (Boivinella in Poaceae)
• Neoboivinella Aubrév. & Pellegr.
• Pseudoboivinella Aubrév. & Pellegr.
• Tisserantiodoxa Aubrév. & Pellegr.
• Wildemaniodoxa Aubrév. & Pellegr.
• Zeyherella (Engl.) Pierre ex Aubrév. & Pellegr.

| range_map = Englerophytum, verspreidingskaart, a.png

| range_map_caption = {{leftlegend|#008D09|Approximate range of genus}}

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Englerophytum is a group of trees in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1914.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/182588#page/349/mode/1up Krause, Kurt. 1914. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 50(Suppl.): 343-348] descriptions in Latin, commentary in German, line drawings as illustrations[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40003535 Tropicos, Englerophytum K. Krause ]

Englerophytum consists primarily of trees. Their leaves are leathery with dense appressed hairs on the undersides. The genus is widespread across tropical and southern Africa. It is found in the countries of Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa ( KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province and Northern Provinces) Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.{{cite web |title=Englerophytum K.Krause {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36731-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=8 September 2021 |language=en}}

The genus name of Englerophytum is in honour of Adolf Engler (1844–1930), a German botanist,{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9 }} and also; phytum, a Greek word meaning "plant".{{source needed|reason='Phytum' is not a Greek word.|date=March 2025}}