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Eugenia umbrosa Berg 1859

  • 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Dept. Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. CEP: 50670 - 901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
  • 2. Dept. Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. CEP: 50670 - 901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Description

13. Eugenia umbrosa Berg (1859: 582) [Fig. 3A; Fig 5K]

Endemic to the Atlantic Forest (Sobral et al. 2009) from the Northeast to Southeast regions of Brazil (Govaerts et al. 2010, Proença & Sobral 2006).

Trees 3–7 m tall, leaves 10.5–27.0 × 5.5–7.5 cm, midvein flat or raised on adaxial lamina surface, raceme with the main axes reduced, bracts linear-lanceolate, bracteoles rotund-lanceolate, hypanthium glabrous, fruit ellipsoid and verrucose with seeds ellipsoid and maculate.

Selected specimens: BRAZIL. Pernambuco: Igarassu, Usina São José, 12.III.2009, fl., fr., B.S. Amorim 424 et al. (UFP); 30.VIII.2008, fr., M.A.M. Silva 38 et al. (UFP); Paulista, Loteamento Alto do Morumbi, 02.III.2002, fr., M.F.A. Lucena 954 et al. (UFP).

Notes

Published as part of Amorim, Bruno S. & Alves, Marccus, 2012, Myrtaceae from lowland Atlantic Forest areas in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, pp. 33-54 in Phytotaxa 40 on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.40.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4927233

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2002-03-02
Verbatim event date
2002-03-02/2009-03-12
Scientific name authorship
Berg
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Myrtales
Family
Myrtaceae
Genus
Eugenia
Species
umbrosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eugenia umbrosa Berg, 1859 sec. Amorim & Alves, 2012

References

  • Berg, O. (1859) Myrtaceae. In: Martius, C. F. P. von, Flora brasiliensis 14 (1): 290 - 597.
  • Sobral, M., Lucas, E., Landrum, L. & Soares-Silva, L. (2009) Myrtaceae. In: Stehmann, J., Forzza, R. C., Salino, A., Sobral, M., Costa, D. P. & Kamino, L. H. Y. Plantas da Floresta Atlantica. Rio de Janeiro, pp 352 - 366.
  • Govaerts, R., Sobral, M., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B. K., Landrum, L., Matsumoto, K., Mazine, F. F., Lughadha, E. N., Proenca, C., Soares-Silva, L. H., Wilson, P. G. & Lucas, E. (2010) World Checklist of Myrtaceae. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http: // www. kew. org / wcsp /. Accessed: 29 July 2010.
  • Proenca, C. E. B. & Sobral, M. (2006) Myrtaceae, In: Barbosa, M. R. V., Sothers, C., Mayo, S., Gamarra-Rojas, C. F. L. & Mesquita, A. C. (eds.). Checklist das Plantas do Nordeste Brasileiro: Angiospermas e Gymnospermas. Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia, Brasilia, pp. 111 - 113.