Muellera campestris (Martius ex Bentham 1860: 95) Silva & Azevedo (2012: 103)

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 266

46. Muellera campestris (Martius ex Bentham 1860: 95) Silva & Azevedo (2012: 103) . ( Fig. 7G )

Distribution: It occurs in Argentina and Paraguay ( Silva 2010); in Brazil it occurs in the South, Southeast and Northeast regions ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs in Serranópolis do Iguaçu of the Capanema area and in the Foz do Iguaçu area.

Reproductive period: According to Silva (2010) this species flowers and fruits almost the whole year, but with a flowering peak from October to December. In ParNa Iguaçu it was found in flower in October and November.

Diagnostic characteristics: Trees with pinnate leaves, leaflets generally elliptical, with salient secondary veins, the apex shortly acuminate or acute, the abaxial surface shortly-pubescent, keel lobes shallowly triangular or triangular and acuminate with the central one larger than the lateral ones, and orbicular seeds ( Silva 2010).

Conservation: Native-NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Area 2, Serranópolis do Iguaçu, 29 October 2015, (fl.), M.G. Caxambu 7070 ( EVB, HCF, UFMT); Area 3, Foz do Iguaçu , 11 October 2010, (sterile), A. P. Cardozo 20 ( UNOP) .

Figures

FIGURE 7. A: Machaerium paraguariense, branch; B: Machaerium stipitatum, branch with fruit; C: Mimosa bimucronata, branch with fruit; D: Mimosa candollei, fruit; E: Mimosa prionopus, fruit; F: Mucuna urens, fruit; G: Muellera campestris, branch with inflorescence; H: Myrocarpus frondosus, branch with inflorescence; I: Nissolia brasiliensis, branch with flower and fruit; J: Peltophorum dubium, fruit.