Eugenia sect. Speciosae Buenger & Mazine, 2016
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.61.7904 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1EEC03CA-3FA0-5803-A6BC-DF64C856EF39 |
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Eugenia sect. Speciosae Buenger & Mazine |
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sect. nov. |
Eugenia sect. Speciosae Buenger & Mazine sect. nov.
Notes.
Trees or shrubs; hairs simple. Indeterminate inflorescence which produces a floral region that, for instance, produces monads, dyads or triads and vegetative innovative shoots, as an auxotelic inflorescence (Briggs and Johnson 1989); bracteoles linear or narrowly elliptic persistent at anthesis but caducous in mature fruits; flowers showy always 4-merous; sepals showy, free, foliaceous, sepals and petals concealing the apex of the bud; ovary 2-locular; ovules 2-many, placenta axile. Fruit crowned by the calyx lobes. Seeds 1-2; seed coat membranous or cartilaginous; embryo with fused cotyledons.
Type.
Eugenia speciosa Cambess. Fl. Bras. Merid. 2 (19): 351. 1832.
Eugenia sect. Speciosae contains six species with three occurring in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, and one distributed in northern South America, in the Amazon. The Atlantic Forest-Amazon disjunction distribution represents a classic biogeographic pattern of the Southern Hemisphere ( McVaugh 1968).
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