Eugenia membranifolia: a long-forgotten Brazilian Atlantic rainforest Myrtaceae
Author
Bünger, Mariana De Oliveira
Author
Capelo, Fiorella Fernanda Mazine
Author
Stehmann, João Renato
text
Phytotaxa
2014
2014-06-04
170
4
297
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.170.4.9
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.170.4.9
1179-3163
5139132
Eugenia membranifolia
Niedenzu, Natürl. Pflanzenfam.
3 (7):82. 1893.(Fig.1)
=
Phyllocalyx membranaceus
O. Berg, Fl. Bras.
14(1): 334. 1857
.
Type
:—
Brazil
, “habitat ad urbem
Rio de Janeiro
”,
Gaudichaud
762 (
holotype
B ϯ; isotype F!)
Shrubs or trees
1.5–
10 m
. Blades elliptic, lanceolate or oblanceolate, coriaceous, 8–20
×
2.5–6.5 cm
, discolorous, glabrous; translucid glandular dots prominent and visible on both surfaces; apex acuminate; base obtuse or attenuate; midvein sulcate adaxially, raised abaxially; lateral veins 15 to 30 on each side, raised on both sides; marginal veins two, the first ca.
1 mm
from the margin and a second vein
2–5 mm
from the margin, the margin revolute; petiole
5–7 mm
long, canaliculate, glabrous. Flowers solitary; pedicels terminal, rarely axillary,
3–13 mm
long, glabrous, rarely puberulent; bracteoles ovate,
4–13 mm
long, acute, glabrous or puberulent, frequently ciliate. Flower buds
5–13 mm
long, when young ones with white trichomes covering the hypanthium; calyx lobes four,
5–15 mm
long, glabrous, extending beyond the petals in bud. Fruits globose, to
5 cm
in diameter, glabrous. Seeds one to four.
Specimens examined:—
BRAZIL
.
Paraná
:
Guaraqueçaba
, s/d,
Hatschbach
,
G
. 56137
(ICN, MBM).
São Paulo
:
Cananeia
:
Fazenda Folha Larga
:
47°55´S
, 24°53´´
W
,
100 alt.,
20. Nov. 2006
,
Camargo
,
R
.
et al. 353
(
BHCB
!,
UEC
!);
Trilha do Espigão
,
47°55´S
, 24°53´´
W
,
Jan. 2004
,
Urbanetz
,
C
.
et al. 329
(
BHCB
!,
UEC
!); trilha
Kaá-Pozanga
,
47°55´S
,