Guatteria capixabae Lobão & J.C.Lopes

29. Guatteria capixabae Lobão & J.C.Lopes View in CoL — Map 9

Guatteria capixabae Lobão & J.C.Lopes (2014) 205,f. 1. — Type: Kollmann et al. 1948 (holo RB; iso MBML), Brazil, Espírito Santo, Santa Teresa, Valsugana Velha , Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 500 m, 11 Feb. 1999.

Tree or shrub 2–6 m tall, 4–6 cm diam; young twigs glabrous. Leaves: petiole 4–6 mm long, 1–1.5 mm diam; lamina narrowly elliptic, rarely narrowly obovate, 7–15 by 1.5–5 cm (leaf index 2.3–5.3), chartaceous, not verruculose to densely verruculose, greyish above, dark grey below, glabrous above, glabrous or rarely sparsely covered with appressed hairs below, base attenuate, apex acuminate (1–10 mm long), primary vein flat above, secondary veins distinct, 9–18 on either side of primary vein, smallest distance between loops and margin 2–3 mm, tertiary veins reticulate, raised above. Flowers solitary in axils of leaves; bracts 3–4, soon falling, not seen; pedicels 8–10(–30) mm long, c. 1 mm diam, fruiting pedicels to c. 25 mm long, 1–1.5 mm diam, sparsely covered with appressed hairs to glabrous, articulated at 0.2–0.4 from the base; flower buds not seen; sepals free, deltate, c. 3 by 3–4 mm, appressed, outer side glabrous or rarely sparsely covered with appressed hairs; petals yellow in vivo, elliptic to rhombic-ovate, 10–15 by 4–8 mm, outer side densely covered with erect, grey hairs; stamens c. 2 mm long, connective shield papillate. Monocarps 5–7, reddish in vivo, blackish in sicco, narrowly ellipsoid, 13–17 by 4–7 mm,

Map 9 Distribution of Guatteria capixabae (●), G. carchiana (£), G. castilloi (■), G. chasmantha (P) and G. chrysophylla (u).

glabrous or rarely sparsely covered with appressed hairs, apex apiculate (apiculum c. 0.5 mm long), wall c. 0.5 mm thick; stipes 2–4 by 1–2 mm. Seed narrowly ellipsoid, 12–15 by 4–5 mm brown reddish, rugose.

Distribution — Brazil (Espírito Santo).

Habitat & Ecology — In non-inundated,Atlantic rain forest.At elevations of 500– 850 m. Flowering:August, February; fruiting: November, March.

Vernacular names — Not recorded.

Note — Guatteria capixabae , endemic to the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, is recognizable by very shortly stipitate mono- carps and an attenuate leaf base. In the original description it is mentioned that the leaves are verruculose and that this species should be compared with species of sect. Mecocarpus (like G. duodecima ), but the specimen we had at hand in Leiden had only very vague verruci and is in that respect completely different from the structures so typical for sect. Mecocarpus . In our opinion G. capixabae is very close to G. stenocarpa , endemic to the Brazilian state of Bahia, differing in shorter stipes (2–4 vs 5–10 mm) and smaller monocarps (13–17 vs 18–25 mm).