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 4 297 300 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 ,