Eugenia cupulata Amshoff 1942
Authors/Creators
- 1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, 50670 - 901, Recife - PE, Brazil.
- 2. Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, Caixa Postal 5065, 58051 - 970, João Pessoa- PB, Brazil.
- 3. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Cidade Universitária Dom Delgado, Av. dos Portugueses, 1966 - Vila Bacanga, 65080 - 805, São Luís - MA.
- 4. Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, 10458 - 5126, NY, United States. wthomas @ nybg. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4996 - 536 X
Description
5. Eugenia cupulata Amshoff (1942: 160).
Type:— SURINAME. Brokopondo, Brownsberg, C. J. Zaandam 6428 (holotype: U [0005014]).
Trees or shrubs 5.4– 10 m. Twigs glabrous. Leaves with petioles 8–22 mm long, glabrous, unchanneled; blades elliptic to broadly so, lanceolate, ovate or oblong, 12.9–22.4 × 5–10 cm, glabrous adaxially and glabrous or sparsely pubescent abaxially, the indumentum brownish-red, chartaceous, discolorous, sometimes lustrous adaxially, darker abaxially; glands not seen; base cuneate, rounded or obtuse; apex acute, cuneate, obtuse or cuspidate; midvein adaxially flat; lateral veins prominent abaxially, not arched, 12 to 15 pairs; intra-marginal vein 1–6 mm from the margin, margin flat. Inflorescence axillary, raceme simple, the axis 2.7–4.8 cm, pubescent, the indumentum brownish-red, bracts not seen, caducous before anthesis; pedicels 5–6 mm long, pubescent; bracteoles deltate, 1.5–2 × 1–2 mm, pubescent, persistent in the fruit; flower buds globose, 4–7 × 5 mm, not constricted above ovary; calyx-lobes free, four, orbicular, 1.5–2 × 1.8–3 mm, pubescent, not reflexed, persistent in the fruit; ovary 2-locular. Immature fruits globose, 0.5–0.8 × 0.6–0.9 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, surface smooth.
Note:— Eugenia cupulata may be recognized by its adaxially flat midvein; intra-marginal vein 1–6 mm from the margin; a simple raceme with brownish-red pubescence; globose flower buds; and free, pubescent calyx-lobes.
Distribution and habitat:— Known from Bolivia, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, central, northeastern and northwestern Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Maranhão, Pará and Rondônia states) (POWO 2020, Flora do Brasil 2020). In Amazonian Maranhão, E. cupulata was found growing in “terra firme” forest on rocky soil.
Phenology:— Flowering in February and March and fruiting in April and June.
Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Maranhão: São Luís, 2°34’38” S, 44°12’04” W, February-March 1939 (fl.), R.L. Fróes 11789 (NY!); 1940 (fr.), R.L. Froes 11864 (NY!). Arredores de Estiva, 08 August 1980 (st.), M.G. Silva 5738 (MG!).
Additional specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Maranhão: Carolina, 7°19’58” S, 47°28’10” W, 12 March 2016 (fr.), A.C. Sevilha 5811 (CEN, image). Lorêto, “Ilha das Balsas”, 140 m, 7°30’ S, 45°3’ W, 01 June 1962 (fr.), G. Eiten 4810 (NY!). Pará: Santarém, Km 35 da estrada do Palhao, arredores do Acampamento do Igarapé Curupira, 04 September 1969 (fl.), M.B. Silva 2493 with R. Souza (NY!).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MG , NY
- Event date
- 1962-06-01 , 1980-08-08 , 2016-03-12
- Verbatim event date
- 1962-06-01/1969-09-04 , 1980-08-08 , 2016-03-12
- Scientific name authorship
- Amshoff
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Eugenia
- Species
- cupulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eugenia cupulata Amshoff, 1942 sec. Amorim, Barbosa, Jr & Thomas, 2022
References
- Flora do Brasil 2020. (2022) Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. Available from: http: // floradobrasil. jbrj. gov. br / reflora / floradobrasil / FB 171 (accessed 20 August 2022)