Eugenia membranifolia Niedenzu, Natürl. Pflanzenfam.

Bünger, Mariana De Oliveira, Capelo, Fiorella Fernanda Mazine & Stehmann, João Renato, 2014, Eugenia membranifolia: a long-forgotten Brazilian Atlantic rainforest Myrtaceae, Phytotaxa 170 (4), pp. 297-300 : 297

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 ,