taxonID	type	description	language	source
03D18797FFFAFFF9DDC4FDDFFD9AFC43.taxon	materials_examined	Type: BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO: “ Praia Grande, au Morro da Viracão ” [Municipality of Niterói, Morro da Viração, currently Parque Natural Municipal de Niterói], 12. III. 1862, fl. and fr., A. F. M. Glaziou 832 (lectotype C 10015833!, designated by Lucas et al. (2016); isolectotypes BR 0000005238972!, BR 0000005239917, C 10015834!, P 00161301!). Figs. 1; 2	en	Fernandes, Thiago, Lucas, Eve J., Vasconcelos, Thais Nogales, Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga (2025): Extended description and taxonomic notes on two recently rediscovered Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Rodriguesia (e 00292024) 76: 1-12, DOI: 10.1590/2175-, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1538646.v1
03D18797FFFAFFF9DDC4FDDFFD9AFC43.taxon	description	Treelets 2 – 4 m, usually scarcely ramified, with pendent branches. Trunk bark vinaceous, exfoliating. Apical bud light-brown, sericeous, young leaves purplish, tomentose abaxially, young twigs tomentose, the trichomes simple, light-brown, 1 – 1.2 mm long. Petioles 4.6 – 6.5 × ca. 3 mm, most visible abaxially, adaxially sulcate, pulvinate, when young pilose like the young twigs, when mature corky and transversally fissured; blades 14.7 – 28.3 × 3.4 – 7 cm, lanceolate or spathulate, c ha r taceous, st rongly bu l late, d i scolorous, drying usually dark-brown adaxially and light-brown abaxially, apex acuminate, base obtuse or cordate; both surfaces when young sericeous to puberulent with appressed, light-brown, simple trichomes up to 0.5 mm long, visibly concentrated on the midvein, when mature glabrous or nearly so, midvein raised on both surfaces; secondary veins 10 – 18 mm apart, leaving the midvein at angles 55 – 70 º, marginal veins three, the inner one 5 – 8 mm from the margin, the middle one 1.5 – 3 mm, the outer one 0.8 – 1 mm; glands 0.1 – 0.2 mm in diameter, homogeneous, hyaline, slightly raised, visible only through lens on mature leaves but visible with the naked eye, vinaceous and raised on the abaxial surface of the young ones. Conflorescence terminal, comprising a single pair, or two decussate pairs of uniflorescences, the axis from which the paired panicles develop 3 – 12 mm long, tomentose, subtended by sessile bracts. Uniflorescence a pendulous, pyramidal panicle, main axis 15.3 – 22.3 cm long, secondary branches alternate, the basal one 8.8 – 18 cm, penducle 27 – 65 × 1 – 1.5 mm, swollen at the point of insertion on the axil, all axes green or sometimes vinaceous in fresh state, flattened, glabrous, blackish when dry, flowers sessile; bracts subtending uniflorescences 2.3 – 5.4 × 2 – 3.4 mm, navicular, narrowly elliptic, deltoid or triangular, base truncate, apex acute, sessile, pilose as the apical bud, subtending the whole inflorescence, persisting after anthesis; bracteoles (and bracts subtending the lateral axes) 1 – 1.5 × ca. 0.2 mm, sessile, navicular, filiform or triangular, base truncate, apex acute, glabrous, persisting after anthesis. Flower buds 2 – 3 × 1.2 – 2.8 mm, obconic, homogeneously glabrous, with the ovary occasionally slightly darker than the calyx, petal globe partially superposed by the calyx. Flowers after anthesis with hypanthial cup ca. 0.5 mm deep, internally glabrous, not tearing at anthesis; calyx lobes five, 0.7 – 1.6 × 0.9 – 1.8 mm, slightly unequal in size (usually two larger and petaloid or deltoid, 1 – 2 of median size and triangular, and 1 – 2 smaller and cucullate with mucronate apices, of which one may be displaced downwards, resembling a displaced bracteole), reflexed, not tearing but sometimes splitting irregularly at base at anthesis, externally glabrous, internally pubescent, with whitish to amber trichomes 0.1 – 0.3 mm long; petals five, 1.3 – 1.6 × 1.4 – 1.8 mm, rounded or narrowly elliptic, base truncate, apex obtuse or rounded, membranaceous, glands conspicuous, externally and internally glabrous; floral disk ca. 2.5 mm in diameter; staminal ring 0.4 – 0.7 mm thick, often tearing in a transversal slit, whitish, pubescent as the internal surface of the calyx, the trichomes hyaline ca. 0.2 mm long; stamens 60 – 65, filaments 4 – 5 m m long, a nt hers basi f i xed, bi loc u la r, longitudinally dehiscing with thecal margins inrolled so that the pollen is only visible through a thin slit, pseudosepta not seen but possibly hidden by thecal margins, the connective eglandular; style 7.8 – 8.2 mm long (around twice the stamen filaments length), stigma punctiform to slightly capitate, minutely papillose, ovary with two locules, each with two ovules. Fruits (immature) 2.8 – 3.5 × 2.8 – 3.5 mm, globose to subglobose, surface smooth, glabrous; seeds not seen.	en	Fernandes, Thiago, Lucas, Eve J., Vasconcelos, Thais Nogales, Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga (2025): Extended description and taxonomic notes on two recently rediscovered Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Rodriguesia (e 00292024) 76: 1-12, DOI: 10.1590/2175-, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1538646.v1
03D18797FFFAFFF9DDC4FDDFFD9AFC43.taxon	materials_examined	Examined material: Rio de Janeiro, estrada das furnas da Tijuca, 24. VI. 1958, fr., “ Liene ” [L. T. Eiten] et al. 3914 (RB). Maricá, Ponta Negra, Sacristia, à beira da praia da Sacristia, 22 º 56 ’ 57.1 ” S, 42 º 41 ’ 1.1 ” W, 64 m elev., 18. III. 2022, fl., T. Fernandes et al. 1006 (NIT, NY, K, RB, US); 2. V. 2022, fl., T. Fernandes et al. 1013 (NIT, NY, RB); 5. VII. 2022, fl., T. Fernandes et al. 1060 (NIT, K, RB); 23. VIII. 2023, fr., T. Fernandes & R. Benvenuti 1484 (NIT, RB); divisa dos municÍpios de Maricá e Tanguá, Espraiado, Refúgio da Vida Silvestre de Maricá, trilha para o Pico da Lagoinha, 22 º 51 ’ 26 ” S, 42 º 40 ’ 1 ” W, 700 m elev., 22. IX. 2024, D. N. S. Machado 3571 (RFFP, RB).	en	Fernandes, Thiago, Lucas, Eve J., Vasconcelos, Thais Nogales, Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga (2025): Extended description and taxonomic notes on two recently rediscovered Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Rodriguesia (e 00292024) 76: 1-12, DOI: 10.1590/2175-, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1538646.v1
03D18797FFFEFFF6DDC4FC70FBDBF8CF.taxon	materials_examined	Type: BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO: “ Inter rupes ad rivulum vulgo Carioca prope Rio de Janeiro ” (“ Bois du ruisseau de la Carioca parmi les rocheen ” on the label). [Rio de Janeiro, Tijuca Massif, at the banks of the Carioca River], 1816 – 1821, fl., A. Saint-Hilaire A 1 - 670 (lectotype P 00161371, designated by Lucas et al. 2016).	en	Fernandes, Thiago, Lucas, Eve J., Vasconcelos, Thais Nogales, Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga (2025): Extended description and taxonomic notes on two recently rediscovered Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Rodriguesia (e 00292024) 76: 1-12, DOI: 10.1590/2175-, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1538646.v1
03D18797FFFEFFF6DDC4FC70FBDBF8CF.taxon	description	Trees 4 – 6 m, usually with multiple trunks, sometimes with pendent branches. Trunk bark greyish light-brown, longitudinally fissured, sometimes detaching in slightly thick, more or less rectangular strips. Apical bud golden to brownish, sericeous, sometimes pruinose, young leaves pinkish, glabrous, young twigs tomentose, sometimes pruinose, the trichomes simple, brownish to ochraceous, ca. 1 mm long. Petioles 6.6 – 12 × 1.5 – 1.8 mm, visible on both surfaces, adaxially sulcate, smooth, often resupinate, when young and mature pilose like the young twigs, occasionally glabrescent; blades 8.5 – 14 × 3.8 – 5.6 cm, elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, rarely narrowly elliptic, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, discolorous, drying greyish-green or olive-green adaxially and light-brown abaxially, apex acuminate, base acute; adaxial surface when young puberulent with appressed, whitish to light-brown, simple trichomes up to 1 mm long, visibly concentrated on the midvein, glabrous when mature or nearly so, midvein finely canaliculate; abaxial surface when young pilose, when mature glabrous or nearly so, the trichomes equal to those on adaxial surface, midvein strongly raised; secondary veins 5 – 9.5 mm apart, leaving the midvein at angles of 60 – 65 º, marginal veins two, the inner one 1.8 – 3 mm from the margin, the outer one 0.4 – 1 mm; glands 0.1 – 0.2 mm in diameter, homogeneous, hyaline, visible only through a lens on both surfaces, even in young leaves. Conflorescence mostly terminal or axillary, sometimes ramiflorous, comprising a single pair of uniflorescences. Uniflorescence a pendulous, pyramidal panicle, main axis 9.5 – 15 cm long, secondary branches alternate, the basal one 3.5 – 10 cm long, peduncle 50 – 90 × 1 – 2 mm, all axes slightly flattened, brownish and tomentose (in fresh and dry state), with trichomes like the young twigs, peduncle 51 – 90 × 1 – 2 mm, flowers sessile; bracts not examined, deciduous before anthesis; bracteoles 0.5 – 1 × ca. 0.5 mm, sessile, navicular, ovate, base truncate, apex acute, puberulent to glabrous on both surfaces, deciduous before or occasionally persisting after anthesis. Flower buds 2 – 2.5 × 1.8 – 2 mm, obconic, ovary tomentose, the trichomes light-brown, yellowish or amber, in two layers, the lower one papillose, markedly distinct from the calyx, the upper one adpressed, calyx shorter than the petal globe which it is conspicuous at the bud apex. Flower after anthesis with hypanthial cup ca. 0.5 mm deep, internally glabrous except for scattered, yellowish, simple trichomes on the bottom (i. e., top of the ovary), not tearing at anthesis; calyx lobes five, 1 – 1.2 × 1.5 – 2 mm, parallel to the disk or reflexed, anthesis by regular opening of the calyx lobes accompanied by some horizontal tearing between the lobes, remaining attached to staminal ring only by the central portion, especially the larger ones, papillose on both surfaces, with trichomes sparse to moderate, yellowish to golden, but internally glabrous at the base at the tearing region, base truncate or trullate (as result of the tearing margins), slightly unequal in size, usually the larger three membranaceous, with rounded apices, the smaller two coriaceous, cucullate in bud, often with acute to apiculate apices, sometimes at least one of these much reduced and slightly displaced below the level of the other lobes; petals five, 1.3 – 1.5 × 1.2 – 2.2 mm, rounded or narrowly elliptic, base truncate, apex obtuse or rounded, membranaceous, glands conspicuous, externally puberulent, internally glabrous; floral disk 1.8 – 2 mm in diameter; staminal ring ca. 0.5 mm in diameter, glabrous; stamens 50 – 60, filaments 3.3 – 5 mm long, anthers basifixed, bilocular, with longitudinally dehiscing with thecal margins reflexed exposing the pollen and the entire internal surface of the thecal halves, pseudoseptum visible, the connective eglandular; style 4.5 – 6 mm long, stigma punctiform, ovary with two locules, each with two ovules. Fruits 6 – 9.5 × 7 – 12 mm, globose to subglobose, sometimes with two swellings where the single reniform seed is lodged, green when immature, dark-purple when ripe, surface smooth, glabrous or with scattered trichomes, the pulp white and pleasant to taste; seeds 1 – 2, reniform, cotyledons green.	en	Fernandes, Thiago, Lucas, Eve J., Vasconcelos, Thais Nogales, Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga (2025): Extended description and taxonomic notes on two recently rediscovered Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Rodriguesia (e 00292024) 76: 1-12, DOI: 10.1590/2175-, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1538646.v1
03D18797FFFEFFF6DDC4FC70FBDBF8CF.taxon	materials_examined	Examined material: Maricá, Itaipuaçu, Pico Alto Moirão, 14. I. 1982, fl., R. H. P. Andreata 387 (RB). Niterói, Charitas, Parque Natural Municipal de Niterói (PARNIT), Morro da Viração, trilha em direção ao cume da Pedra do Santo Inácio, 22 º 55 ’ 12.6 ” S, 43 º 4 ’ 39.4 ” W, 296 m elev., 1. XII. 2022, fl., T. Fernandes & R. Benvenuti 1332 (NIT, RB); Itaipu, Parque Estadual da Serra da Tiririca, Córrego dos Colibris, 15. III. 2001, fr., E. N. Fontes 1 (RB, RFFP); 14. I. 2005, fl., A. A. M. de Barros 2361 (RB); trilha em direção ao cume do morro, 22 º 57 ’ 16.4 ” S, 43 º 00 ’ 57.6 ” W, 270 m elev., 10. VII. 2022, fr., T. Fernandes 1088 (K, NIT, RB); Piratininga, Tibau, Parque Natural Municipal de Niterói (PARNIT), Morro da Viração, trecho final da travessia Tupinambá, próximo à saÍda da trilha, 22 º 56 ’ 45 ” S, 43 º 5 ’ 59 ” W, 60 m elev., 22. XII. 2021, fl., T. Fernandes 918 (K, NIT, NY, MBML, RB, RBR); 4. I. 2022, fl., T. Fernandes 925 (NIT, NY, R, RB, US); 13. I. 2022, fl., T. Fernandes 934 (K, NIT, P, RB, RBR, RFFP); 20. I. 2022, fl., T. Fernandes 943 (MBM, NIT, RB, SPF); 28. III. 2022, fr., T. Fernandes et al. 1007 (K, NIT, MBM, RB, RBR, RFFP, US).	en	Fernandes, Thiago, Lucas, Eve J., Vasconcelos, Thais Nogales, Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga (2025): Extended description and taxonomic notes on two recently rediscovered Myrcia (Myrtaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Rodriguesia (e 00292024) 76: 1-12, DOI: 10.1590/2175-, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1538646.v1
