Pimenta cainitoides (Urb.) Burret (1941: 514)

Santos, Matheus F., Amorim, Bruno S., Burton, George P., Faria, Jair E. Q., Fernandes, Thiago, Flickinger, Jonathan A., Gaem, Paulo Henrique, Landrum, Leslie R., Lima, Duane F., Proença, Carolyn E. B., Rosa, Priscila O., Lima-Dos-Santos, Leidiana, Setubal, Robberson B., Stadnik, Aline M. S., Staggemeier, Vanessa G., Vasconcelos, Thais N. C. & Lucas, Eve J., 2024, A taxonomic account of Myrciinae (Myrteae, Myrtaceae): generic and sectional placement of forgotten species and a list of all accepted species, Phytotaxa 674 (2), pp. 129-170 : 133

1.6. Pimenta cainitoides (Urb.) Burret (1941: 514) . Myrtus cainitoides Urban (1924: 301) . Krokia cainitoides (Urb.) Urban (1928: 470) .

= Myrcia majaguitana Alain & M.M.Mejía (in Liogier & Mejía 1997: 18), syn. nov. Type:— DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Cordillera

Central, Prov. Peravia, San José de Ocoa, cerca de los ríos Nizao y Mahoma, 18º33’N, 70º22’W, elevation 500–503 m, 17 July 1986,

García 1422 (holotype BRIT; isotypes JBSD, MAPR, NY [image!]).

Myrcia and Pimenta can be easily confused, as both genera contain species with paniculate inflorescences and a pentamerous open calyx ( Flickinger et al. 2020). However, the inflorescence of the type collection of Myrcia majaguitana does not have the typical triangular shape of Myrcia with terminal dichasia; it is instead paniculateglomerate, an arrangement more common in Pimenta .

Pimenta cainitoides occurs from East Cuba to the Dominican Republic, the type locality of Myrcia majaguitana . Specimens named as both taxa share: dense reddish-brown indument on the twigs and abaxial leaf surface; leaf shape, size and a coriaceous texture; and tetramerous flowers ( Landrum 1986). Based on these features, M. majaguitana is here considered as a synonym of P. cainitoides .