Eugenia schottiana O. Berg (1857: 286)

Valdemarin, Karinne Sampaio, Mazine, Fiorella F. & Souza, Vinicius Castro, 2024, Eugenia (Myrtaceae) from Reserva Natural Vale, Espírito Santo, a center of plant endemism in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, Phytotaxa 651 (1), pp. 1-79 : 70-72

45. Eugenia schottiana O. Berg (1857: 286) . ( Fig. 28A .)

Trees 0.5–10 m tall. Twigs glabrate or glabrous when young; trichomes brownish. Young leaves glabrate or glabrous; trichomes brownish. Leaves with petioles 2–5 mm long, terete or slightly canaliculate, glabrate or glabrous; blades 25–75 × 20–55 mm, elliptic, wide-elliptic or ovate, discolorous when dry, lighter abaxially, not glaucous and glabrous on both surfaces; bases obtuse or attenuate, sometimes rounded; apices obtuse or rounded; midvein biconvex adaxially and raised abaxially, glabrous on both surfaces; secondary veins 6–11 at each side, raised on both surfaces, the first pair confluent with the marginal vein; marginal veins two, the innermost 1–3.5 mm from the revolute, and sometimes with a yellow thickening margin; oil glands raised on both surfaces. Inflorescences ramiflorous, fascicle, sessile or with peduncle up to 1.5 mm long, rachis up to 1.5 mm long, puberulent; bracts 0.5–1 mm long, ovate or suborbiculate, puberulent, deciduous after anthesis; 2–8 flowers; pedicels 2–7 mm long, pubescent; bracteoles 0.5–1.5 mm long, free or connate at the base, ovate or suborbiculate, apices obtuse, puberulent, not reflexed, persistent in the fruit; trichomes brownish. Flower buds 2–4.5 mm in diameter. Flowers with smooth, pubescent hypanthia; calyx lobes 4, fused along the first third of the bud length, 1.5–2.5 × 1–3 mm, ovate or suborbiculate, apices obtuse or rounded, ciliate; petals 4, obovate, oil glands evident; staminal ring puberulent; stamens with filaments 1–6 mm, anthers oblong; style 2–6.5 mm, glabrous, stigma punctiform; ovary 2–locular, ovules 16–24 per locule, locule internally glabrous. Fruits 10–15 × 5–8 mm, ellipsoid, smooth, puberulent, purple when ripe; seeds 1–2 per fruit, 4–8.5 × 2.5–6.5 mm, ellipsoid, testa smooth.

Specimens examined: — BRAZIL. Espírito Santo: Linhares, Reserva Natural Vale – Aceiro Arlindinho , 07 May 2009, fr., J.M. P. Maas 9821 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., Aceiro Calimã sentido a estrada Roxinho , 25 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 832 (ESA!) ; ibid., Aceiro próximo a guarita e pomar, 26 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 894 (ESA!) ; ibid., 31 March 2012, fr., J.E.Q. Faria 2520 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., Estrada Flamengo , 11 May 2009, fr., D.A. Folli 6351 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., 13 May 2009, fr., G.D. Colletta 251 (ESA!, RB!) ; ibid., 22 June 2004, fr., F. Mareto 6 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., 23 January 1995, fl., D.A. Folli 2492 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., 23 January 2012, fl., G.S. Siqueira 714 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., 26 December 1989, fl., G.L. Farias 350 (CVRD!, HUFSJ!, SORO!) ; ibid., Estrada Gávea , 01 December 2006, fl., E.J. Lucas 879 (BHCB, ESA!, K!, RB!, SORO!) ; ibid., 26 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 878 (ESA!) ; ibid., 26 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 880 (ESA!) ; ibid., 8 February 1999, fl., E.M. Nic Lughadha 174 (CVRD!, ESA!, HUFSJ!, SORO!, SP!, SPF!) ; ibid., 8 February 1999, fl., E.M. Nic Lughadha 175 (CVRD!, ESA!, HUFSJ!, SORO!, RB!) ; ibid., Estrada Jueirana Vermelha , 07 June 2007, fr., M.C. Souza 538 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., 11 April 2006, fr., M.A. Pinho-Ferreira M663 (CVRD!, ESA!, SORO!) ; ibid., Próximo ao rio Barra Seca , 25 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 824 (ESA!) ; ibid., Próximo ao rio Barra Seca , 25 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 821 (ESA!) ; ibid., 25 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 823 (ESA!) ; ibid., Estrada Parajú , 15 May 2006, fr., D.A. Folli 5270 (CVRD!, HUFSJ!, SORO!) ; ibid., 30 January 1986, fl., G.L. Farias 106 (CVRD!, SORO!) ; ibid., 31 January 1990, fl., D.A. Folli 1087 (CVRD!, HUFSJ!, SORO!) ; ibid., 31 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 969 (ESA!) ; ibid., 31 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 971 (ESA!) ; ibid., 31 January 2017, fl., K.S. Valdemarin 976 (ESA!) ; ibid., Estrada Roxinho, próximo ao aceiro Catelã , 08 April 2006, fr., M.A. Pinho-Ferreira M622 (CVRD!, ESA!, UB!, RB!); no locality, 23 March 1986, fr., M. Sobral 4667 (BHCB, CVRD!, RB!, SORO!) .

Distribution and habitat: — Eugenia schottiana is known from collections from the state of Bahia through Rio de Janeiro in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The specimen previously determined as E. schottiana for Espírito Santo (A.P. Fontana 5204) is a different entity, being the specimens here treated the first record for the species in the state. In the RNV, the species is found in the Muçununga and Campo Nativo vegetation.

Phenology: —Flowering in December through February; fruiting in March through June ( Fig. 5 ).

Taxonomic comments: —The species can be assigned to Eugenia sect. Umbellatae due to its fasciculate inflorescences and bracteoles persistent in the fruit. Eugenia schottiana is morphologically similar to E. maritima but can be distinguished by its leaf blades with midvein biconvex adaxially and flowers with pubescent hypanthium (vs. midvein sulcate adaxially and flowers with hypanthium glabrous). Additionally, E. schottiana is easily distinguished from all other species occurring in RNV by the combination of its leaf blades with midvein biconvex, inflorescences in fascicle ramiflorous, on leafless nodes, flowers with pubescent hypanthium and calyx lobes ciliate, and bracteoles persistent in the fruit.

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FIGURE 5. Phenological diagram of Eugenia species from Reserva Natural Vale, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Flowering periods are represented by dark red border triangles, fruiting in grey filled triangles, and “n” is the number of observations.

FIGURE 28. A. Flowering branch of Eugenia schottiana (K.S. Valdemarin 832), B. Fruiting branch of Eugenia sulcata (K.S. Valdemarin 454), C. Fruiting branch of Eugenia supraaxillaris (K.S. Valdemarin 911), D. Flower with costate hypanthium of E. sulcata (K.S. Valdemarin 205).