Circumscription and synopsis of Eugenia section Speciosae Buenger & Mazine (Myrtaceae)
Author
de Oliveira Buenger, Mariana
Laboratorio de Sistematica Vegetal, Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CEP 31270 - 901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
maribunger@gmail.com
Author
Mazine, Fiorella Fernanda
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW 9 3 AE, U. K.
Author
Lucas, Eve J.
Author
Stehmann, Joao Renato
Laboratorio de Sistematica Vegetal, Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CEP 31270 - 901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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Eugenia speciosa Cambess., Fl. Bras. Merid. (quarto ed.) 2(19): 351. 1832.
Fig. 1C, E, F
Phyllocalyx
speciosus
(Cambess.) O. Berg, Fl. Bras. 27(2-3): 307. 1856.
Eugenia longipetiolata
Type: Based on
Eugenia speciosa
Cambess.
Phyllocalyx retusus
O. Berg, Fl. Bras. 14(1): 331. 1857.
Eugenia speciosa
Type: Brazil.
Habitat ad ripas flaminis Rio Pardo in Montevideo
: Sellow s.n. (holotype B, probably destroyed; isotypes: K! [000276590], BR! [0000005261277]).
Phyllocalyx limbatus
O. Berg, Fl. Bras. 14(1): 332. 1857.
Eugenia speciosa
Type: Brazil.
Habitat ad Angra dos Reys in prov. Rio de Janeiro: Pohl 264, 5760., loco incerto ajusdem prov., Sellow
s.n. (lectotype here designated BR! [526061-Sellow]!; isolectotype: B (fl.), probably destroyed; W (fr.) [photo]!).
Phyllocalyx macrosepalus
O. Berg, Fl. Bras. 14(1): 332. 1857.
Eugenia speciosa
Type: Brazil.
Habitat ad Alegres et Manoel Jesu praedia in prov. Minarum
: Mikan s.n., Pohl s.n. (lectotype here designated: BR! [526984]; isolectotypes: M! [M-0171010], W [photo]!).
Phyllocalyx marginatus
O. Berg, Fl. Bras. 14(1): 332. 1857.
Eugenia speciosa
Type: Brazil.
Habitat in prov. Rio de Janeiro
: Martius s.n. (holotype: BR! [526094].
Eugenia retusa
(O.Berg) Nied., Nat. Pflanzenfam. 7: 82. 1893.
Eugenia longipetiolata
Type: Based on
Phyllocalyx retusus
O. Berg
Eugenia caldensis
Kiaerskou, Enum. Myrt. Bras. 162. 1893.
Eugenia longipetiolata
Type: Based on
Phyllocalyx marginatus
O. Berg
Eugenia macrocalyx
Mart. ex B.D.Jacks, Index Kew. 1: 908. 1893.
Eugenia longipetiolata
Type: Based on
Phyllocalyx macrosepalus
Berg
Type.
Brazil.
In sabulosis prope praedium vulgo Fazenda
d'Araucaria
in prov. S.Pauli, floret Octobri
: Saint-Hilaire s.n. (lectotype: P [P01902768]!; isolectotype: MPU! [photo])
Notes.
Eugenia speciosa
is a tree 5-12 m high from Atlantic Forest in southern and southeastern Brazil. It is common in rainforests and
"restingas"
. This species also occurs in montane Atlantic Forest in Minas Gerais State (Brazil) and also occurs in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia. This species has leaves with visible, salient dots on both faces, glabrous, obtuse apices with cartilaginous margins and a glabrous hypanthium.
The lectotypes chosen for
Phyllocalyx limbatus
and
Phyllocalyx macrosepalus
are from BR; they were seen and we consider that the specimens that well represent the names. The lectotype that was chosen for
Phyllocalyx limbatus
is a specimen that is a duplicate (isotype) of the specimen that was in B which was destroyed in the Second World War. For thus, we consider it as the lectotype for this species.