taxonID	type	description	language	source
1518E28613765E8AADAC0B9C461E5183.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2, 3	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
1518E28613765E8AADAC0B9C461E5183.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Huberia campostriniae differs from Huberia cordifolia (Cogn.) Bochorny & R. Goldenb. due to the hypanthium densely covered by sessile glands (vs stalked glands); sepals 2 – 2.8 × ca 0.5 mm (vs 4.5 – 7 × 1 – 1.5 mm); petals 7.5 – 9.5 × 6 – 6.5 mm (vs 13 – 17 × 8 – 10 mm); ovary apex with 8 lobes, these covered with long stalked glands (vs 4 lobes, glabrous); style ca 5 mm long (vs 11 – 15 mm).	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
1518E28613765E8AADAC0B9C461E5183.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs 0.4 – 0.7 m tall; branches, petioles, inflorescences, bracts, and bracteoles moderately covered with sessile glands 0.1 – 0.2 mm long. Branches terete, striate. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.7 – 2.5 cm long; blade 2.5 – 6.5 × 1.2 – 4 cm, membranaceous, ovate or broadly elliptic, apex cuspidate, base rounded, margin serrulate and eciliolate, adaxial and abaxial surfaces moderately covered with sessile glands 0.1 – 0.2 mm long, acrodromous veins 3, with an additional faint submarginal pair, basal, main veins impressed adaxially and raised abaxially, transverse veins and reticulation visible on both surfaces. Inflorescences thyrsoids or compound dichasia 2 – 4 cm long, terminal, with 10 flowers; bracts two, persistent, leafy, ca 25 × 18 mm, ovate or broadly elliptic, petiole ca 8.5 mm long; bracteoles two, persistent, ca 1 mm long, subulate. Flowers 6 - merous, pedicels 8 – 12 mm long. Hypanthium 3 – 5 × 3 – 3.5 mm, campanulate, greenish, densely covered with sessile glands ca 0.1 mm long; torus glabrous. Calyx tube 0.8 – 1 mm long, densely covered with sessile glands ca 0.1 mm long; sepals 2 – 2.8 × ca 0.5 mm, triangular-subulate, apex apiculate, margin eciliolate or ciliolate-glandular ca 0.5 mm long (the cilia sometimes caducous); external teeth absent. Petals 7.5 – 10 × 5 – 6.5 mm, left margin (in adaxial view) white, right margin (in adaxial view) white to pinkish, obovate and asymmetric, apex rounded, not apiculate, margin entire, both surfaces glabrous. Stamens 12, subisomorphic, glabrous; filaments 4 – 5.5 mm long (antesepalous) or 6.5 – 7 mm long (antepetalous), greenish; connective not prolonged below the thecae, dorsal appendages 2 – 2.5 mm long, yellow, linear-subulate; anthers 3 – 3.5 mm long in both cycles, yellow, oblong-linear, the thecae prolonged up to 0.2 mm below the insertion of the filament, with a single, apical (but ventrally inclined) pore. Ovary ca 3 mm long, 2 / 3 basally adhered to the hypanthium, 4 - locular, apex with 8 lobes, these covered with stalked glands 1.5 mm long; style ca 5 mm long, slightly curved or sigmoidal, glabrous. Capsules ca 8.5 × 5 mm, the carpels exceeding the hypanthium length by ca 1 mm; seeds ca 1 × 0.5 mm, elongate or oblong, raphe almost equalling the seed length, testa granulate.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
1518E28613765E8AADAC0B9C461E5183.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Huberia campostriniae was found along the trail to the Cabeça de Peixe summit, in the Serra dos Órgãos mountains, which is part of the Serra do Mar mountain range located in the central portion of the state of Rio de Janeiro (Fig. 3 A, D). It is typically found on very steep slopes with rocky outcrops, sparse vegetation, and moist and shady environments. The collection site is located at about 1260 m elevation and is surrounded by Montane Atlantic Rainforest.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
1518E28613765E8AADAC0B9C461E5183.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet honours the botanist Dr Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, now at Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade. Dr Forzza coordinated the projects Flora and Funga of Brazil, Reflora, and Catalog of Plants of Conservation Units in Brazil.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
F2FC46DBCB7552F097951A4C15BC5A9B.taxon	description	Figs 3, 4, 5	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
F2FC46DBCB7552F097951A4C15BC5A9B.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Huberia ciliata differs from Huberia comosa (R. Tav., Baumgratz & R. Goldenb.) Bochorny & Michelang. due to the young branches, petioles, inflorescences, bracts and bracteoles moderately covered with long stalked glands (vs lacking stalked glands, except for very short comose-glandulose tufts on nodes and leaf margins); leaves with basal acrodromous veins (vs suprabasal), adaxial surface moderately covered with appressed stalked glands 1 – 1.5 mm long (vs glabrous); calyx margins densely ciliolate-glandular, the purple cilia 0.5 – 1 mm long and the gland heads globose (vs eciliolate or ciliolate-glandular, in this case minute cilia ca 0.1 mm long and lacking well-defined gland heads); ovary 1.7 mm long, 4 - locular, apex without lobes but with stalked glands (vs 2 – 2.5 mm, 3 - locular, apex with 4 glabrous lobes).	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
F2FC46DBCB7552F097951A4C15BC5A9B.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs ca 0.5 m tall; branches, petioles, inflorescences, bracts, and bracteoles densely covered with stalked glands 0.2 – 1 mm long (the heads sometimes caducous). Branches terete, striate. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.4 – 1.8 cm long; blade 1.5 – 6 × 0.8 – 4 cm, papyraceous, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base rounded, margin serrulate and ciliolate (the cilia 0.5 – 1.3 mm long, glandular but the gland heads sometimes caducous), adaxial surface moderately covered with stalked glands 1 – 1.5 mm long, abaxial surface moderately covered with stalked glands 0.5 – 1 mm long, acrodromous veins 3, with an additional faint submarginal pair, basal, main veins impressed adaxially and raised abaxially, transverse veins and reticulation visible on both surfaces. Inflorescences thyrsoids or compound dichasia 4.3 – 8 cm long, terminal, with 10 – 30 flowers; bracts and bracteoles persistent, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1 – 3 × 0.5 - 2 mm long. Flowers 5 - merous, on pedicels 6 – 11.5 mm long. Hypanthium 2 – 5.5 × 1.5 – 3 mm, campanulate, reddish, glabrous or with very sparsely covered with stalked glands up to 0.5 mm long; torus glabrous. Calyx tube ca 0.5 mm long, reddish, glabrous, apex apiculate, margin ciliolate-glandular, the purple cilia ca 0.5 mm long, glandular, the heads globose, sometimes caducous; sepals 0.5 – 1 × 0.5 – 1 mm, triangular, glabrous, margin ciliolate, the cilia similar to the ones on the tube, 0.2 – 0.8 mm long; external teeth a thick, dorsal hump. Petals 7.5 – 13 × 5.5 – 6.5 mm, left margin (in adaxial view) white, right margin (in adaxial view) white to pinkish, obovate and asymmetric, apex acuminate and apiculate, margin entire, both surfaces glabrous. Stamens 10, subisomorphic, glabrous; filaments 6.5 – 7.5 mm long (antesepalous) or 4.5 – 5.5 mm long (antepetalous), greenish; connective not prolonged below the thecae, dorsal appendages ca 1.5 mm long, yellow, linear-subulate; anthers 3 – 3.5 mm long in both cycles, yellow, oblong-linear, the thecae prolonged up to 0.2 mm below the insertion of the filament, with a single, apical (but ventrally inclined) pore. Ovary ca 1.7 mm long, 2 / 3 basally adhered to the hypanthium, 4 - locular, apex without lobes, but covered with stalked glands ca 1 mm long; style ca 5.5 mm long, slightly curved or sigmoidal, glabrous. Capsules 4.5 – 5.5 × 3.5 – 4.5 mm, the carpels not exceeding the hypanthium length or sometimes exceeding it by ca 0.5 mm; seeds 1 – 1.5 × ca 0.5 mm, elongate or oblong, raphe almost equalling the seed length, testa granulate.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
F2FC46DBCB7552F097951A4C15BC5A9B.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Huberia ciliata has only been found on a complex of granitic inselbergs in the municipality of Santa Rita do Itueto, in eastern of the state of Minas Gerais (Fig. 3 A, B). The species is found on islands of vegetation over shallow pockets of soil over granitic rock, where it grows among grasses, sedges, and bromeliads, exposed to direct sunlight and intense fluctuations of water availability. The species was recorded at elevations ranging from 840 to 1062 m. The location where it was recorded is an Area of Environmental Protection, a protected area of Sustainable Use where two other Melastomataceae taxa were recently described, Pleroma miconiifolium F. S. Mey & R. Goldenb. and P. petrophylax F. S. Mey & R. Goldenb. (Goldenberg et al. 2022), with the former occupying the same habitats as H. ciliata. These inselbergs are surrounded by a matrix of Semidecidous Seasonal Forests of the Atlantic Forest domain, now mostly converted into pastures and plantations.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
F2FC46DBCB7552F097951A4C15BC5A9B.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet refers to the sepals with densely ciliolate-glandular margins.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
BC8D99AF678953268D5E5A53D9287916.taxon	description	Figs 3, 6, 7	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
BC8D99AF678953268D5E5A53D9287916.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Huberia mayarae differs from Huberia organensis (Saldanha & Cogn.) Bochorny & R. Goldenb. due to the leaves with a rounded apex, subcordate base, and adaxial and abaxial surfaces glabrous (vs an acute apex, obtuse or rounded base, and abaxial surface covered with dendritic trichomes), 5 – 6 - merous flowers, on pedicels 5 – 10 mm long (vs 6 - merous, on pedicels 2 – 3.5 mm long); hypanthium 4 – 7 × 3.5 – 5 mm, densely covered with stalked glands (vs 2 – 3 × 2 – 3.5 mm, glabrous); sepals ca 1 × 0.5 mm, ciliolate margin (vs 0.3 – 0.5 × ca 0.2 mm, not ciliolate); petals with an apiculate apex (vs not apiculate).	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
BC8D99AF678953268D5E5A53D9287916.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs 0.2 – 0.5 m tall; branches, petioles, inflorescences, bracts, and bracteoles densely covered with both short and stalked glands (these up to 2 mm long, the heads sometimes caducous). Branches terete, striate. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.4 – 1.7 cm long; blade 2.3 – 5 × 1.6 – 3 cm, ovate or broadly elliptic, apex acute, base subcordate, margin serrulate and eciliolate, papyraceous, adaxial and abaxial surfaces glabrous, acrodromous veins 3, with an additional faint submarginal pair, basal, main veins impressed adaxially and raised abaxially, transverse veins and reticulation visible on both surfaces. Inflorescences thyrsoids or compound dichasia 4.5 – 6 cm long, terminal, with 10 flowers; bracts two, persistent, leafy, petiole ca 6 mm long, blade ca 30 × 15 mm, ovate or broadly elliptic; bracteoles two, persistent, ca 1 mm long, ovate. Flowers 5 – 6 - merous, on pedicels 5 – 10 mm long. Hypanthium 4 – 7 × 3.5 – 5 mm, campanulate, densely covered with stalked glands 0.5 – 1 mm long; torus glabrous. Calyx tube 0.5 – 1 mm long, densely covered with stalked glands ca 1 mm long; sepals ca 1 × 0.5 mm, triangular, apex apiculate, margin ciliolate ca 0.5 mm long (the purple cilia sometimes caducous); external teeth absent. Petals 7.5 – 15 × 4.5 – 7 mm, white, obovate and asymmetric, apex acuminate and apiculate, margin entire, adaxial and abaxial surfaces glabrous. Stamens 10 – 12, subisomorphic, glabrous; filaments 8.5 – 10.5 mm long (antesepalous) or 8.5 – 9.5 mm long (antepetalous), greenish; connective not prolonged below the thecae, dorsal appendages ca 3 mm long, yellow, linear-subulate; anthers 4 – 4.5 mm long in both cycles, yellow, oblong-linear, the thecae prolonged up to 0.2 mm below the insertion of the filament, with a single, apical (but ventrally inclined) pore. Ovary ca 3 mm long, 2 / 3 basally adhered to the hypanthium, 4 - locular, apex without lobes, glabrous; style ca 9.5 mm long, slightly curved or sigmoidal, glabrous. Capsules ca 8.5 × 6.5 mm, the carpels exceeding the hypanthium length by ca 1 mm; seeds not seen.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
BC8D99AF678953268D5E5A53D9287916.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Huberia mayarae has been found growing in small crevices or directly on the surface of rock walls near the summit of the Pico dos Marins, in the Serra da Mantiqueira mountains, located on the border between the states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (Fig. 3 C). The plants were collected at 2100 m elevation (while the summit is at 2420 m), right on the border between Minas Gerais and São Paulo but just a few meters on the Minas Gerais side. It also occurs in São Paulo (Lucas N. Gonçalves pers. obs.), but it has not been collected there. The rock outcrops are surrounded by Montane Atlantic Rainforest (Fig. 3 A).	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
BC8D99AF678953268D5E5A53D9287916.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet honours the botanist Dr Mayara Krasinski Caddah, now at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Dr Caddah has contributed to the knowledge of Melastomataceae in Brazil, mostly on taxonomy, morphology, and phylogeny of Miconia Ruiz & Pav. in the Brazilian Amazon and the Atlantic Forest.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
352ABA96693A51CC842C1625E577EA34.taxon	description	Figs 3, 8, 9	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
352ABA96693A51CC842C1625E577EA34.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Huberia revoluta differs from Huberia glutinosa (Cogn.) Bochorny & R. Goldenb. by the 5 – 8 - merous flowers on pedicels 4.5 – 7.5 mm long (vs 6 - merous on pedicels 2.5 – 3.5 mm long); calyx with triangular-subulate sepals (vs broadly triangular); petals 8 – 12 × 4.5 – 6 mm, with glabrous margin (vs 13 – 16 × 9 – 11 mm, margin with sparse stalked glands); style ca 6 mm long (vs 11 – 12.5 mm).	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
352ABA96693A51CC842C1625E577EA34.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs 0.5 – 1.5 m tall; branches, petioles, inflorescences, bracts, and bracteoles sparsely to moderately covered with sessile glands and also with sparse stalked glands 0.5 – 1.2 mm long (the heads sometimes caducous). Branches terete, striate. Leaves opposite, revolute leaf blades; petiole 0.2 – 1 cm long; blade 1.5 – 6.8 × 0.5 – 3 cm, papyraceous, ovate or elliptic, apex acute, base obtuse to subcordate, margin serrulate-denticulate and ciliolate (each tooth ending in a short cilium, usually eglandular, but seldom glandular), adaxial surface sparsely to moderately with sessile glands 0.2 – 0.4 mm long, abaxial surface sparsely to moderately with sessile glands, plus stalked glands 0.5 – 1 mm long only on the veins, acrodromous veins 5, with an additional faint submarginal pair, basal, main veins impressed adaxially and raised abaxially, transverse veins and reticulation barely visible on both surfaces. Inflorescences dichasia 1.2 – 5 cm long, terminal, with 5 – 10 flowers, but sometimes depauperate; bracts two, non-persistent, leafy, petiole 0.4 – 2 mm long, blade 2 – 7 × 1 – 2.5 mm, elliptic or broadly elliptic; bracteoles two, persistent, ca 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate. Flowers 5 – 8 - merous, on pedicels 4.5 – 7.5 mm long. Hypanthium 3 – 6.5 × 5.5 – 8 mm, campanulate, vinaceous, densely covered with sessile glands 0.2 – 0.4 mm long, otherwise glabrous or very rarely with isolate stalked glands 0.5 – 1 mm long; torus glabrous. Calyx tube ca 1 mm long, vinaceous, with the same trichomes as the hypanthium, but usually with more stalked glands; sepals 2 – 5 × 1 – 2.5 mm, triangular-subulate, apex bluntly apiculate, margin ciliolate-glandular, the purple cilia 0.5 mm long, sometimes caducous; external teeth absent. Petals 8 – 12 × 4.5 – 6 mm, with a white portion close to the left margin (in adaxial view) and white to pinkish portion on the right margin, obovate and asymmetric, apex rounded to emarginate, not apiculate, margin entire, eciliolate, adaxial and abaxial surfaces glabrous. Stamens 10 – 16, subisomorphic, glabrous; filaments 6 – 7.5 mm long (antesepalous) or 5 – 6 mm long (antepetalous), greenish; connective not prolonged below the thecae, dorsal appendages ca 3 mm long, reddish, linear-subulate; anthers 3 – 4 mm long in both cycles, yellow, oblong-linear, the thecae prolonged up to 0.2 mm below the insertion of the filament, with a single, apical (but ventrally inclined) pore. Ovary 3 – 4 mm long, 2 / 3 basally adhered to the hypanthium, 4 - locular, apex with 10 lobes, these with stalked glands ca 2.2 mm long; style ca 6 mm long, slightly curved or sigmoidal, glabrous. Capsules 5.4 – 7.7 × 4.8 – 6.5 mm, the carpels exceeding the hypanthium length by ca 1 mm. Seeds ca 1 × 0.5 mm, elongate or oblong, raphe almost equalling the seed length, testa granulate.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
352ABA96693A51CC842C1625E577EA34.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Huberia revoluta was collected on quartzitic outcrops of the João Pinto Formation, immersed in a matrix of Semideciduous Seasonal Forests in the Doce River valley in eastern Minas Gerais (Fig. 3 A, B). The species was recorded in the Serra do Padre Ângelo, in the municipality of Conselheiro Pena, where it was found on the highest peaks, the Pico da Bela Adormecida (or Pico do Padre Ângelo) and the Pico do Sossego, and also in the municipality of Alvarenga, in the Pico da Aliança. At these peaks, the species was found in Campo Rupestre growing on sandy soils rich in organic matter and among large rock outcrops, at elevations ranging from 1250 to 1510 m. The species was found growing sympatric with other endemic and recently described species, including Pleroma brevicomosum F. S. Mey & R. Goldenb. and P. caetanoi F. S. Mey & R. Goldenb. (Goldenberg et al. 2022).	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
352ABA96693A51CC842C1625E577EA34.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet refers to the distinct revolute leaf blades.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
D827F46AB2615468A9EF5DB9592A17A0.taxon	description	Figs 3, 10, 11	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
D827F46AB2615468A9EF5DB9592A17A0.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Huberia rubricalyx differs from Huberia comosa (R. Tav., Baumgratz & R. Goldenb.) Bochorny & Michelang. due to the branches, petioles, inflorescences, bracts, and bracteoles with sparse stalked glands, these denser on nodes (vs lacking stalked glands, except for very short comose-glandulose tufts on nodes and leaf margins); leaf blades with a subcordate base (vs obtuse or rounded), and basal acrodromous veins (vs suprabasal); ciliolate-glandular calyx margin, the purple cilia 0.3 – 1 mm long with globose gland heads (vs eciliolate or ciliolate-glandular, in this case minute cilia ca 0.1 mm long and lacking well-defined gland heads); stamen dorsal appendages 3 – 4.5 mm long (vs 1 – 1.2 mm); 4 - locular ovary, apex with 10 lobes, these with long stalked glands (vs 3 - locular, apex with 4 lobes, glabrous); style ca 11.5 mm long (vs 6.5 – 8.5 mm).	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
D827F46AB2615468A9EF5DB9592A17A0.taxon	description	Description. Shrubs 0.4 – 1 m tall; branches, petioles, inflorescences, bracts, and bracteoles sparsely covered with short stalked glands 0.2 – 0.5 mm long (the heads sometimes caducous). Branches terete, striate. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.6 – 3.5 cm long; blade 1.2 – 5.6 × 0.4 – 3 cm, ovate to broadly ovate or elliptic to broadly elliptic, apex acuminate or acute, base subcordate, margin serrulate and ciliolate-glandular (the cilia 0.5 – 1 mm long, glandular), papyraceous, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface with sparse short stalked glands 0.1 mm long, acrodromous veins 3, with an additional faint submarginal pair, basal, main veins impressed adaxially and raised abaxially, transverse veins and reticulation visible on both surfaces. Inflorescences thyrsoids 4.5 – 10.7 cm long, terminal, with 10 – 20 flowers, usually arranged in double or compound dichasia, sometimes depauperate; bracts two, persistent, leafy, petiole 0.4 – 2 mm long, blade 1.5 – 20 × 0.3 – 5 mm, lanceolate; bracteoles two, persistent, 1 – 2 mm long, ovate to lanceolate. Flowers 5 - merous, on pedicels 2.5 – 11 mm long. Hypanthium 3 – 5.3 × 2 – 3 mm, campanulate, glabrous; torus glabrous. Calyx tube 0.5 mm long, red, glabrous; sepals 1 – 1.5 × 0.5 – 1.5 mm, broadly triangular, apex apiculate, margin ciliolate-glandular, the purple cilia 0.3 – 1 mm long, glandular, the heads globose, sometimes caducous; external teeth reduced to a thick, dorsal hump. Petals 9 – 12 × 4.5 – 7 mm, left margin (in adaxial view) white, entire, right margin (in adaxial view) white to pinkish, obovate and asymmetric, apex acuminate and apiculate, margin entire, both surfaces glabrous. Stamens 10, subisomorphic, glabrous; filaments 8.5 – 9.5 mm long (antesepalous) or 7.5 – 8.5 mm long (antepetalous), greenish; connective not prolonged below the thecae, dorsal appendages 3 – 4.5 mm long, yellow, linear-subulate; anthers ca 5 mm long in both cycles, yellow, oblong-linear, the thecae prolonged up to 0.2 mm below the insertion of the filament, with a single, apical (but ventrally inclined) pore. Ovary 3 – 4 mm long, 2 / 3 basally adhered to the hypanthium, 4 - locular, apex with 10 lobes covered with long stalked glands ca 2.2 mm long; style ca 11.5 mm long, slightly curved or sigmoidal, glabrous. Capsules 3 – 3.5 × 3.5 – 4 mm, the carpels exceeding the hypanthium length by ca 1 mm; seeds ca 1 × 0.5 mm, elongate or oblong, raphe almost equalling the seed length, testa granulate.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
D827F46AB2615468A9EF5DB9592A17A0.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. Huberia rubricalyx is endemic to the quartzitic outcrops of the João Pinto Formation, in the municipalities of Alvarenga and Conselheiro Pena, in eastern Minas Gerais (Fig. 3 A, B). The species was recorded in the Serra do Padre Ângelo, around the Pico da Bela Adormecida and, to the south, in the Serra do Parado, near the district of Vista Alegre; it was also recorded in the Pico da Aliança, ca 12 km to the west. Huberia rubricalyx was found forming small populations with scattered individuals in Campo Rupestre, growing on sandy soils with organic matter both on open areas and surrounded by large rock outcrops, at elevations ranging from 980 to 1400 m.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
D827F46AB2615468A9EF5DB9592A17A0.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet refers to the flowers with a red calyx.	en	Bochorny, Thuane, Gonella, Paulo M., Gonçalves, Lucas N., Völtz, Rafael R., Goldenberg, Renato (2025): Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains. Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1): 23-42, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.134375
