Eugenia hiraeifolia Standley, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser.

Mazine, Fiorella F., Jr, Jair Eustáquio Quintino De Faria, Souza, Marcelo Costa & Lucas, Eve, 2015, Eugenia kuhlmanniana (Myrtaceae), a new synonym of E. hiraeifolia, a Mesoamerican species cultivated in Brazil, Phytotaxa 207 (1), pp. 141-142 : 142

Eugenia hiraeifolia Standley, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 17: 202. 1937.

Eugenia salamensis var. hiraeifolia (Standley) McVaugh, Fieldiana, Bot. 29: 457. 1963.

Type:— PANAMA. Monte Oscuro , near Panama city, 23 September 1935, J. Zetek 3550 (holotype F! , isotype MO! ).

Eugenia kuhlmanniana Mattos & D. Legrand, Loefgrenia 67: 30. 1975. Type:— BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, presumedly Rio de Janeiro Botanical Gardens, 07 March 1949, J. G. Kuhlmann s.n. RB 83920 (holotype RB!, isotype MVM). Syn. nov.

Notes:—The marginal vein of the leaves of Eugenia hiraeifolia is not evident. The lower surface of the leaves is very densely sericeous with adpressed and dibrachiate trichomes, providing a golden or silvery aspect to the lower surface. The cymose inflorescences are also densely pubescent, with deciduous flower bracts and bracteoles. For a complete morphological description, see Barrie (2009: 177) and McVaugh (1963: 457, under Eugenia salamensis var. hiraeifolia ).

Distribution:— Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; in deciduous tropical forest and tropical dry-moist forest transition, from 80– 900 m.