Eugenia culminicola McVaugh, Fieldiana, Bot.

Uc Gala, Victor C., Valdemarin, Karinne Sampaio, Lucas, Eve, Negrão, Raquel & Mazine, Fiorella F., 2023, Eugenia (Myrtaceae) from Mexico: checklist, distribution, and conservation assessments, Phytotaxa 583 (2), pp. 99-140 : 110

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.583.2.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7621510

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scientific name

Eugenia culminicola McVaugh, Fieldiana, Bot.
status

 

23. * Eugenia culminicola McVaugh, Fieldiana, Bot. View in CoL 29: 437 (1963)

EOO: 10,866.298 km ². AOO: 16 km ². Evaluation of IUCN: Near Threatened.

Eugenia culminicola has a distribution known only in the Mexican states of Michoacán and Jalisco, occurring at the tops of the hills for being a very mountainous area, ranging between 1,495 and 1,946 m elev. The estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) based on records falls within the thresholds of Vulnerable category under the criterion B, whist the area of occupancy (AOO) falls within the thresholds of Endangered category. There are inferred only four known locations based on five records found in several biodiversity conservation areas, such as “Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Manantlán” and “CADNR 043”, both in Jalisco and “Parque Nacional Barranca del Cupatitzio”, in Michoacán (GrafMontero et al. 2015, DOF 1949, CONANP 2006b). The biome where E. culminicola occurs is the Humid Montane Forest in transition with the Humid Tropical Forest and Temperate Forest. The habitat of occurrence of this species is under low threat due to the geographical position in the Sierra Madre del Sur and several conservation and nature protection zones ( CONABIO 2018). In this way, Eugenia culminicola is classified as Near Threatened (NT) meeting the criteria B1a+B2a due to its restricted distribution and number of locations, but it mainly occurs in protected areas, and there is no information on continuing decline of habitat, population severely fragmented or any kind of extreme fluctuation.

Specimens examined:— MEXICO. Jalisco: McVaugh 16222 ( MEXU!); Michoacán: Pacheco 367 ( MEXU!).

MEXU

MEXU

MEXU

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Myrtaceae

Genus

Eugenia

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