Licania micrantha Miq. subsp. micrantha

Barros, Natália, Menezes, Luis Fernando Tavares de, Sothers, Cynthia & Peixoto, Ariane Luna, 2025, Flora of Espírito Santo: Chrysobalanaceae, Rodriguesia (e 00872024) 76, pp. 1-39 : 31-32

7.8. Licania micrantha Miq. subsp. micrantha . Stirp. Surinam. Select.: 29. 1851. Fig. 10

Shrub to tree, up to 24 m tall, DBH 19–30 cm, stem up to 6 m tall; young branches pubescent, becoming glabrous with age, lenticellate. Leaves elliptic to widely-elliptic, 6.6–11.6 × 3.4–5.5 cm, chartaceous to coriaceous, discolorous, base cuneate to obtuse, apex acute to acuminate, acumen up to 7 mm long, adaxially glabrous, abaxially pubescent to tomentulose, stomatal crypts absent, midrib impressed to plane adaxially, prominent abaxially, primary veins 6–7 pairs; petiole 3–9 mm long, glabrous, terete, eglandular; stipules 2, lanceolate, 3–5 mm long, sparsely puberulous, persistent. Inflorescence terminal to subterminal, racemose panicle, pubescent; bracts ca. 2 mm long, triangular, caducous; bracteoles 3, triangular, 0.5 mm long, pubescent, persistent. Flowers yellow, ca. 3 mm long, sessile, puberulous; receptacle campanulate, 1.5–2 mm long, pubescent on the inside; sepals triangular, ca. 1 mm long, puberulous; stamens 3, in a semi-circle, free, filaments ca. 0.5 mm long, pubescent; ovary ca. 0.8 mm long, sericeous; style 2.5–3 mm long, pubescent throughout. Immature drupe ellipsoid, stipitate, 1–1.2 × 0.7–0.8 cm; epicarp rugose, puberulous.

Selected material examined: Itapemirim , floresta de restinga, próximo à área protegida pela marinha, estrada de Itaóca-Itapemirim,rodovia ES-060, 19.X.2008, fl., A.C.S. Cavalcanti 277 ( MBML, RB) . Linhares , Reserva Natural Vale , estrada Gávea km 2.1, 8.X.2003, fl., D.A. Folli 4619 ( CVRD, K); Lagoa do Durão, Rio Doce, 14.IV.1934, fr., J.G. Kuhlmann 208 ( NY00378408 , RB35360 ) . Pedro Canário , margem da BR-101, direção Rio-Itaunas, 19.X.2008, fr., A.C.S. Cavalcanti 283 ( RB) . Presidente Kennedy , propriedade da Ferrous, próximo à Praia das Neves, 27.IX.2009, fl., Maielo-Silva 132 ( RB) . Santa Leopoldina , propriedade FamÍlia Balbino - TimbuÍ Seco, 26.XI.2005, fl., A. M. Assis 1103 ( MBML) . Santa Teresa , Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 20.X.1993, fr., L.D. Thomaz 1641 ( MBML, VIES) .

Licania micrantha is similar to L. belemii (see comments under this species). However, it can be distinguished by the absence of stomatal crypts, persistent lanceolate stipules, usually shorter petiole (3–9 mm long in L. micrantha vs. 0.7–1.1 cm long in L. belemii ), less branched inflorescence and lower number of stamens (3 vs. 5). Collected with flowers in July and from September to February, and with fruits from October to December.

Licania micrantha subsp. micrantha occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana and Venezuela ( Prance & Sothers

2003a). In Brazil it was collected in Acre, Amazonas,

Amapá, Bahia, EspÍrito Santo, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, and Roraima states ( Sothers & Prance 2023f). In EspÍrito Santo state it is recorded in Restinga, Ombrophilous forest and Mata de Tabuleiro, in Itapemirim, Linhares, Pedro Canário, Presidente Kennedy, Santa Leopoldina and Santa Teresa municipalities. It was recorded in two protected areas: Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia and Reserva Natural Vale.

The common names for this species are oiti

(J.G. Kuhlmann 208) and bafo-de-bezerro (D.A. Folli 4619).