Eugenia punicifolia (Kunth) De Candolle (1828: 267)

Amorim, Bruno S. & Alves, Marccus, 2012, Myrtaceae from lowland Atlantic Forest areas in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, Phytotaxa 40, pp. 33-54 : 40

11. Eugenia punicifolia (Kunth) De Candolle (1828: 267) ; McVaugh (1958: 723–724) [ Fig. 2L; Fig 5I]

Cited from Cuba to Paraguay ( Govaerts et al. 2010) and widely distributed in Brazil. ( Sobral et al. 2010).

Shrubs 1–3 m tall, leaves 3.0–5.5 × 1.0– 2.5 cm, midvein sulcate on adaxial lamina surface, raceme with the main axis reduced with only two secondary axes and two bracts, bracts lanceolate, bracteoles rotund, hypanthium pilose, style glabrous, fruit subglobose.

Selected specimens: BRAZIL. Pernambuco: Goiana, Reserva do Patrimônio Natural Fazenda Tabatinga , 27.I.2010, fr., B.S. Amorim 528 et al. (UFP); Igarassu, Usina São José, 12.III.2009, fr., B.S. Amorim 423 et al. (UFP); 12.I.2010, fl., B.S. Amorim 524 et al. (UFP) .