Myrcia ehrenbergiana (O.Berg) McVaugh
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Authority
Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.
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Family
Myrtaceae
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Scientific Name
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Discussion
Myrciaria ehrenbergiana Berg, Linnaea 27: 321. 1856.
Aulomyrcia ehrenbergiana (Berg) Amsh., Rec. Trav. Bot. Neerl. 42 : 8. 1950.
Easily recognized by the subsessile, subcordate, oblong leaves, and 4-merous flowers with calyx-lobes pubescent within. The panicles are abundantly beset with small dibrachiate hairs, and the calyx-lobes, especially the two small outer ones, separate readily from the hj^anthium after anthesis. Known from but few collections.
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Distribution
V E N E Z U E L A . Bolivar: Gran Sabana, S of Mt. Roraima, elev 1065 m, 2 Oct1944 (fl), Steyermark 59154 (F). V E N E Z U E L A - B R A Z I L . Bolivar-Rio Branco:Serra do Sol, between Caju on Rio Quino and right fork of headwaters of Rio Cotinga.elev 750 m, 25-26 Dec 1954 (fl), Maguire 40369 (NY). BRAZIL. Rio Branco:Surumu, Ule 8241, 8242 (both K ) . BRITISH GUIANA. [Roraima, according toBerg] Schomburgk 700 (W, annotated by Berg, lectot)^e); without locality, Schomburgk700 (BM, G, M I C H , P
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