Myrciaria vismeifolia (Benth.) O.Berg

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.

  • Family

    Myrtaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Myrciaria vismeifolia (Benth.) O.Berg

  • Discussion

    Eugenia vismeaefolia Benth., Jour. Bot. Hook. 2: 320. 18

    For description see Amshoff (Fl. Suriname 3(2): 110. 1951). The species was based on a cohection made by Schomburgk on the Rio Quitaro, British Guiana; no number was cited in the protologue, but the specimen under this name in Bentham's herbarium (K), bears the number 549; another sheet of the same number, named by Berg, is at W . Amshoff cites a number of collections from Suriname.

    The fohowing cohection may be referred here for the present; the leaves are 10- 15 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, sharply acuminate, but the petioles quite glabrous in a fruiting specimen, and the leaves rounded rather than subcordate at base: BRITISH GUIANA. Kaieteur Plateau, Potaro River above Kaiatuk, 10 M a y 1944 (fr) Maguire & Fanshawe 23347 (MICH).

  • Distribution

    Guyana South America| Suriname South America|