Eugenia flavescens DC.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Myrtaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Eugenia flavescens DC.

  • Discussion

    Eugenia flavescens var guianensis Sagot, Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 20: 192. 1885

    Readily recognized by the pale yellow-green color of the dry leaves, flowers and fohage, this species is often nearly or quite glabrous; the branchlets and pedicels may be minutely hispidulous; the midvein is usually strongly convex on both surfaces in dried leaves; the brittle reddish bark of the branchlets is often much cracked and partly peeling; the small flowers are in small axillary fascicles; the fruit is usually notably depressed-globose (oblate), more than 1 cm in diam. For description see Amshoff, Fl. Suriname 3(2): 140, 1951, or Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 13(4) [Fl. Peru]: 699, 1958. The species ranges from the Guianas to Maranhao and Bahia, and inland south of the Amazon to Bolivia, but it seems to be unknown from the upper Amazon and from the Orinoco basin; the type was from Bahia.

    Eugenia flavescens var guianensis does not seem to be a recognizably distinct taxon. The original material, according to the protologue, was cohected "ad Mana solo arenoso, Sagot coll., no. 263." At Paris there were in 1965 four sheets from Mana. One collected in 1856 and two in 1858 are numbered 263. The 1856 collection is hereby named lectotype because it is fully annotated by Sagot; it is a good flowering specimen which is also labehed "legt. cl. ab. Rouquier."

  • Distribution

    Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America|