Ferolia pohlii (Hooker f.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen.

Ferolia pohlii (Hooker f.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. View in CoL 2 6. 1891. nom. nud.

Trees 4–10 m tall, buttress roots absent, with a straight base, rhytidome conspicuously reticulate. Leaves with stipules caducous, 21–27 3 ca. 6 mm, lanceolate, abaxial surface arachnoid and pilose, adaxial surface glabrous, cataphylls rarely present; petioles (6–)8–10 3 2.2–3 mm, terete, pilose and arachnoid when young, arachnoid or glabrescent when mature, one or rarely two pairs of nectaries in the median portion; leaf blades plane to slightly concave, 4–16 3 2–4.5(–6.5) cm, ovate to oblong, chartaceous, base rounded, rarely cordate, apex acuminate, acute, rarely attenuated or mucronated, margin entire to slightly crenulated, plane; abaxial surface densely arachnoid, greenish, venation eucamptodromous, 17–25 pairs of secondary veins, veins prominent, pilose and arachnoid, pilose, arachnoid or glabrescent, brownish, greenish; adaxial surface glabrescent, rarely arachnoid. Thyrse 60–80 mm long; bracts brownish, widely ovate, strongly revolute, ca. 5.5 3 ca. 4.2 mm, inner face glabrous, outer face arachnoid, pilose in the middle; pedicel 1.5–3 mm long. Floral receptacle brownish, 9–10 mm long, infundibuliform to slightly gibbous, arachnoid, pilose; sepals ca. 4 3 1.5–2 mm, arachnoid and pilose in the middle; petals puberulent in the upper third and in the upper half of the veins, 3–4.6 3 ca. 1.6 mm, narrowly obtrullate, apex rounded, cucullate, veins conspicuous; filaments 1.8–2.5 mm long; anthers cream-colored, ca. 0.6 mm long, staminodes ca. 1 mm long; ovary pilose; style ca. 4 mm long, pilose in the upper two thirds. Drupe brownish, ovate, widely ovate, 25–31 3 ca. 20 mm, seeds ca. 15 3 ca. 5 mm, narrowly elliptical or elliptic. Figures 6G–L View FIG , 7J–R View FIG .

Habitat and Distribution — Parinari pohlii is endemic to the state of Minas Gerais where it is restricted to Seasonal Semideciduous Montane Forest formations, on rocky soils, quartzite soils in campos rupestres and clay-rich soils, at elevations between 800 and 1000 m. The populations of P. pohlii are located in the southeast of the Espinhaço Range, with recent records in Serra da Serpentina, near the border between the municipalities of Morro do Pilar and Conceiç ~ ao do Mato Dentro ( Fig. 8 View FIG ).

Preliminary Conservation Status — Parinari pohlii has an extent of occurrence (EOO) of 55 km 2 and area of occupancy (AOO) of 20 km 2. The main current threats are iron oxide and quartz mining in the Serra da Serpentina in the state of Minas Gerais, and the construction of a slurry pipeline ( Mamede et al. 2016; Saddi com. pess.), Eucalyptus spp. farming, and cattle farming ( LAPIG 2018). Thus, if a formal analysis were performed, Parinari pohlii would probably be considered Endangered (EN), according to criteria B1ab(iii)12ab(iii).

Additional Specimens Examined— Brazil. — MINAS GERAIS: Conceiç ~ ao do Mato Dentro , 845 m, 28 Nov 2013, E. T. Neto et al. 5496 ( BHCB, HUEFS), E. T. Neto et al.5497 ( BHCB, HUEFS) ; Conceiç ~ ao do Mato Dentro , 928 m, 06 Oct 2014, F. D. GontiJo 359 ( BHCB) ; Conceiç ~ ao do Mato Dentro, Serra da Serpentina , 07 Sep 2017, R. G. Barbosa-Silva et al. 880 ( HUEFS, RB), R. G. Barbosa-Silva et al. 881 ( HUEFS, RB) ; Conceiç ~ ao do Mato Dentro. Parcela 34 para os estudos do EIA do Mineroduto Morro do Pilar / MG - Linhares /ES, 02 Aug 2012, E. Saddi 835 ( RB) ; Morro do Pilar, Serra da Serpentina , 07 Sep 2017, R. G. Barbosa-Silva et al. 876 ( HUEFS, RB) .

Notes —In the protologue of P. pohlii, Hooker (1867) presented a species description and illustration, but he did not cite specimens or designated a type. Prance and Sothers (2003) indicated a holotype in the herbarium M (e.g. “holo: M; iso: BR”). According to article 7.11 of the Shenzhen Code ( Turland et al. 2018), the typification indicated by Prance and Sothers (2003) is not valid, since it occurred after 2001 and could only be effective if it included the phrase “designated here.” Thus, the typification was not achieved and I designate a lectotype here. There are two specimens in the herbarium BR but only one of them, BR0000006968458, has Hooker’ s annotation identifying the species and signaling that it was a new species. Moreover, this specimen appears to be the model for the illustration of P. pohlii (tabula 17, fig. II) in Flora Brasiliensis ( Hooker 1867) , indicating this is the material originally used by Hooker. When analyzing the types of Parinari pohlii and P. brasiliensis , I observed that the two taxa correspond to distinct species, refuting the synonymization proposed by Prance (1972).

Parinari pohlii is characterized by the reduced plant height (8–10 m), the conspicuously reticulated rhytidome, rounded leaf base, petiole 2.2–3 mm wide, flowers 0.8–10 mm long., and petals 3–4 mm long.

Species Excluded from Occurrence in the Atlantic Forest Domain —