Neomitranthes pedicellata (Burret) Mattos (1981: 2)

Maruyama, Adriano Da Silva De Cicco, Tuler, Amélia Carlos, Valdemarin, Karinne S., Proença, Carolyn Elinore Barnes & Mazine, Fiorella Fernanda, 2024, A new species of Psidium and notes on Neomitranthes from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, Phytotaxa 653 (2), pp. 155-164 : 162

2. Neomitranthes pedicellata (Burret) Mattos (1981: 2) .

Mitranthes pedicellata Burret (1941: 55) .

TYPE:— BRAZIL. São Paulo, São Paulo (Capital), native to the botanical garden, June 11, 1935, F. C. Hoehne 33521 (holotype: SP!; isotype K!) .

Fruit description:—Fruits globose ( Figure 2 ), 10–23 mm in diameter; green when immature, covered by whitish indumentum, passing through red, becoming dark purple and glabrous at maturity.

Notes:—It is known from few collections, and was described only from flowering material (Hoehne 33521). Fruits were recorded in the municipality of Cunha on the edge of an alluvial forest, at elevations above 1100 m (Maruyama 8619).

Specimens Examined— BRAZIL. São Paulo: Cunha, Sítio Vivenda das Meninas, next to the Serra do Mar State Park , January 2023, fr., A. Maruyama 8619 ( SORO!) ; ibidem, near of Serra do Mar Park State , water’s edge, 19 October 2023, fr., A. Maruyama et al. 8899 ( SORO!) .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Fruits of Neomitranthes capivariensis (A to C) and N. pedicellata (D to F): A. lateral view of a fruit. B. Apical view of a fruit showing deciduousness of the hypanthium. C. Ripe fruit. D. Immature fruits with indumentum. E. Fruit in the ripening process. F. Ripe fruits, divested of indumentum. A, B, C from A. Maruyama 6357 (SORO); D from A. Maruyama 8899 (SORO), and F from A. Maruyama 8619 (SORO).