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Issue: Vol. 663 No. 2: 20 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.663.2.5
Page range: 95-100
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 8

Myrcia cupreiflora (Myrtaceae), a new species from the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro

Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim do Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pacheco Leão, 915, 22460-030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, 13083-970, Campinas, SP Brazil. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA
Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim do Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pacheco Leão, 915, 22460-030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim do Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pacheco Leão, 915, 22460-030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Myrcia sect. Aulomyrcia Myrtales Myrteae Neotropical flora taxonomy Atlantic Forest Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of Myrcia (Myrtaceae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro is described and illustrated. The species is recognizable by its strongly bullate leaf blades, long, axillary and terminal, coppery and strigose inflorescences and calyces completely fused in the flower buds, tearing deeply vertically into 4–5 homogeneous sepals at anthesis. We herein provide a morphological description of the new species along with taxonomic notes, preliminary conservation status, illustrations, and a map of occurrence records.

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