Moquilea salzmannii Hook.f.

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 : 35

8.1. Moquilea salzmannii Hook.f. , Fl. bras . (Martius) 14(2): 21. 1867. Figs. 2; 7 k-l

Tree , up to 30 m tall, DBH 63 cm, stem ca. 18 m tall, cylindric, bark rough, light brown, heartwood dark reddish brown, branches glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves elliptic, 4.5–8.3 × 2–4 cm, chartaceous to coriaceous, discolorous, base cuneate, apex acuminate, acumen 5–9 mm long, glabrous adaxially, glabrescent to glabrous abaxially, without stomatal crypts, midrib prominulous adaxially, glabrous, primary veins 9–11 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 3–5 mm long, glabrous, canaliculate, eglandular; stipules caducous (not seen). Inflorescence terminal to subterminal, panicle of cymules, pubescent; bracts 1, lanceolate 2.5–4 mm long, pubescent, caducous; bracteoles 3, lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm long, pubescent, caducous. Flowers 0.8–1 cm long, white, green or yellow, pubescent, receptacle cupuliform, ca. 1 mm long, pubescent on the inside, pedicellate, pedicel 1–5 mm long; petals 5, rounded, 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous, margin ciliate; sepals triangular, ca. 1–2 mm long, pubescent on both sides; stamens ca. 20, free at most length, united at base, exserted, in a complete circle; filaments ca. 3 mm long, glabrous; ovary ca. 1 mm long, lanate, at receptacle base, style ca. 2 mm long, glabrous. Drupe ellipsoid, green, stipitate, 7–11 × 3.9–7 cm, epicarp rugose, glabrous. Selected material examined: Conceição da Barra, Flona do Rio Preto, mata em regeneração a beira da estrada, 10.IV.2011, fr., M. Ribeiro 496 ( RB, SAMES, VIES) ; Rebio de Córrego Grande , floresta alta sobre Tabuleiro, estrada interna km 4, 13.VII.2011, fr., M. Ribeiro 571 ( SAMES, VIES) . Ibiraçu , sÍtio localizado após a BR-101, no inÍcio da subida para o mosteiro, à esquerda, 5.VI.1990, J.M.L. Gomes 1202 ( HUEFS, VIES) . Linhares , Lagoa do Durão, Rio Doce, 11.IV.1934, fr., J.G. Kuhlmann 162 ( NY, RB) ; Reserva Natural Vale , Estrada Flamengo, ant. X-1, km 5.576, lado direito, 12.IX.1985, fl., G.L. Farias 70 ( CVRD, RB, UEC) . Pinheiros , Rebio de Córrego do Veado, 13.II.2022, L.F.T. Menezes 2993 ( SAMES) . Santa Teresa , Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 20.X.1993, fl., L.D. Thomaz 1637 ( HRCB, MBML, VIES) . Sooretama , Rebio de Sooretama, Estrada do Quirino, 2017, fl., Curso de campo UFES, UFRRJ, IBRJ 03 ( RB, RBR, SAMES) .

Moquilea salzmannii can be distinguished from other species by its inconspicuous primary veins on both sides of the leaf (hindering the counting), the flowers with elongate pedicel, short cupuliform receptacle and the stamens exserted and united at base. This species is pollinated by insects and has a biotic dispersal syndrome ( Rolim et al. 2016). Collected with flowers from October to November and fruits from April to June.

Moquilea salzmannii is endemic to Atlantic Forest , recorded in Bahia and EspÍrito Santo ( Sothers & Prance 2023g). In the latter, it occurs in Ombrophilous forest and Mata de Tabuleiro , in Conceição da Barra , Ibiraçu, Linhares, Pinheiros, Santa Teresa and Sooretama. It is assessed as “Least Concern” ( LC) for Brazil (Fernandez & Amorim 2018). In EspÍrito Santo the species was collected in six protected areas ( Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, Floresta Nacional do Rio Preto , Reserva Biológica de Córrego Grande , Reserva Biológica de Córrego do Veado, Reserva Biológica de Sooretama, Reserva Natural Vale), with collections from diferent decades, which indicates it is not threatened .

The common names for this species are guaiti (D.A. Folli 120), oiti-coró (J.G. Kuhlmann RB 294) and oiti-da-bahia (L.S. Leoni 5856).