4. Eugenia caducibracteata Mazine (in Mazine & Souza 2009: 149).

Type:— BRAZIL, Pará, Almeirim, Gleba Monte Dourado, floresta secundária de terra firme, J.M. Pires & N.T. Silva 2015 (holotype: MG). (Fig. 2 E-F.)

Shrubs 2– 17 m. Twigs glabrous, sparsely pubescent when young, the indumentum whitish. Leaves with petioles 3–8 mm long, glabrous or puberulent, channeled or shallowly channeled; blades elliptic to broadly so, lanceolate, ovate or oblong, 5.2–14 × 2.5–6.3 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, the indumentum brownish, chartaceous, concolorous; glands conspicuous; base rounded, cuneate or acute; apex acute or attenuate, rarely acuminate; midvein adaxially sulcate; lateral veins visible, not arched, 8 to 10 pairs; intramarginal vein 1–3 from the margin, margin revolute. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, raceme simple, the axis 4.2–10.4 cm long; bracts not seen, caducous before anthesis; pedicels 2–9 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles ovate to broadly so, or deltate, 1–2 × 1–3 mm, glabrous, persistent in the fruit; flower buds globose, 5 × 5 mm, not constricted above ovary; calyx-lobes free, four, orbicular, 2–3.5 × 3–4 mm, glabrous, not reflexed, persistent in the fruit; ovary 2-locular. Immature fruits oblong or ellipsoid, 1.4–1.7 × 1.1–1.3 cm, glabrous or puberulent, surface smooth.

Note:— Eugenia caducibracteata may be recognized by its adaxially sulcate leaf midvein; a simple raceme with a long axis; large flower buds (5 × 5 mm); and bracts that are caducous before anthesis.

Distribution and habitat:— Known from northeastern and northwestern Brazil (Amazonas, Maranhão and Pará states) (Mazine & Souza 2009). E. caducibracteata can be found growing in unflooded tropical moist forest (Mazine & Souza 2009) and in Amazonian Maranhão was found growing in secondary forest.

Phenology:— Flowering in February and December and fruiting in August.

Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Maranhão: Açailândia, Estrada BR-222, entre Santa Inês e Açailândia, 300m, 4°45’ S, 45°10’ W, 17 December 1978 (fl.), J. Jangoux 559 (NY!) . Alto Alegre do Pindaré, Alzilândia, Rio Pindaré, 0- 100 m, 3°45’ S, 46° 05’ W, 11 December 1978 (fl.), J. Jangoux & R.P . Bahia 304 (BHCB, image). Buriticupu, Reserva Florestal da CVRD, 46°24’04” S, 46°24’04” W, 08 February 1996 (fl.), F.H. Muniz B2378 (SP, image). Santa Luzia, Alzilândia, Rio Pindaré, 3°45’ S, 46°05’ W, 11 December 1978 (fr.), J. Jangoux 304 (NY!) . São Luís, February-March 1939 [fl], R.L. Fróes 11773 (NY!) . São José de Ribamar, Sítio Aguahy, 2°38’47” S, 44°09’05” W, 03 February 2018 (fl.), G.S. Amorim 448 (MAR!) ; 03 February 2018 (fl.), G.S. Amorim 447 (MAR!); 26 August 2017 (fr.), G.S. Amorim 373 (MAR!) . Turiaçu, Palmeirinha, 27 February 1983 (fl.), J. U. Santos 994 (MG!) .