25. Myrcia spectabilis De Candolle (1828: 248); Legrand & Klein (1967: 6–9). [Fig. 3T, U; Fig. 6F]

Endemic to the Atlantic Forest (Sobral et al. 2009) from the Northeast to Southern regions of Brazil (Govaerts et al. 2010, Proença & Sobral 2006). In the Northeast, it is found in the States of Bahia (Sobral et al. 2010), Pernambuco (Griz & Machado 1998), and new records of this species for State of Alagoas are presented here. Trees 6–8 m tall. It differs from Gomidesia blanchetiana in having larger leaves (12–15 cm long) with attenuate bases and petioles c. 5 mm long; it differs from other Myrcia species by having a sulcate midvein on the adaxial lamina surface, imbricate, equal and apiculate calyx, lobes, a pilose hypanthium and base of style and globose fruit.

Selected specimens: BRAZIL. Pernambuco: Igarassu, Usina São José, 27.I.2010, fr., B.S. Amorim 553 et al. (UFP); 02.III.2010, fr., J.A.N. Souza 630 et al. (UFP); 09.III.2010, fr., B.S. Amorim 592 et al. (UFP). Alagoas: Murici, 17.V.2000, fr., R.P. Lyra-Lemos et al. 4601 (MAC).