New botanical discoveries of Myrtaceae from Bolivia and notes on Psidium hians Author Villarroel, Daniel Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno. Avenida Irala 565, Santa Cruz, Bolivia Author Gomes-Bezerra, Kadja M. Centro Especializado em Plantas Aromáticas, Medicinais e Tóxicas (CEPLAMT), Museu de História Natural e Jardim Botânico da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Rua Gustavo da Silveira, 1035, 31080 - 010 Belo Horizonte, Brasil text Phytotaxa 2015 2015-01-23 195 2 163 170 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.195.2.5 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.195.2.5 1179-3163 13641137 Note on Psidium hians Psidium hians Martius ex De Candolle (1828: 234) . Type:— BRAZIL , Martius s.n. ( holotype M image!). P. nutans O. Berg (1857: 394) , syn. nov. Type :— BRAZIL , Gardner 2598 ( holotype G image!; isotypes BM image!, OXF image!, P image!). Figure 3. A photograph of Psidium hians can be found in Wood (2011a: 162). Psidium hians and P. pubescens Martius ex De Candolle were described and published together by de Candolle in 1828. Some 28 years later, Berg (1856) , transferred P. pubescens to the genus Campomanesia as Campomanesia pubescens (Martius ex De Candolle) O. Berg. Landrum (1986) , in the revision of the genus Campomanesia , includes Psidium hians as a synonym of Campomanesia pubescens . However, after examining images of the type specimens of P. hians and P. pubescens ( Campomanesia pubescens ), we conclude that they are two completely different species as they differ both in their vegetative and reproductive parts. Psidium hians , should, therefore, be considered an accepted name. Examining herbarium material of P. hians and P. nutans , we observed that these two do not have vegetative and reproductive morphological differences. We therefore consider that P. nutans should be considered as a synonym of P. hians .