Hirtella hebeclada Moric.

Barros, Natália, Menezes, Luis Fernando Tavares de, Sothers, Cynthia & Peixoto, Ariane Luna, 2025, Flora of Espírito Santo: Chrysobalanaceae, Rodriguesia (e 00872024) 76, pp. 1-39 : 17-18

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-7860202576015

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scientific name

Hirtella hebeclada Moric.
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4.4. Hirtella hebeclada Moric. , ex DC., Prodr. 2: 529. 1825. Fig. 6 Tree, up to 12 m tall, DBH 26–30 cm, stem 7–12 m tall, flat, bark rough; young branches hispid to densely hispid, becoming glabrous with age, lenticellate. Leaves elliptic, 6.3–12.2 × 3.7–6 cm, chartaceous, discolorous, base cuneate, apex rounded to acuminate, acumen 0.5–4 mm long, adaxially glabrescent to hispid, abaxially sparsely hispid, midrib plane adaxially and prominent abaxially, hispid, primary veins 8–10 pairs, hispid, occasionally with discoid glands abaxially at base or throughout all its length; petiole 3–6 mm long, terete, hispid to densely hispid; stipules 2, triangular, 2–3 mm long, hispid, persistent, eglandular. Inflorescence terminal to subterminal, racemose, densely hispid; bracts 2, triangular, 2 mm long, hispid, caducous; bracteoles 2, triangular, 1 mm long, hispid, persistent, with or without sessile glands. Flowers white, 1.9–2.2 cm long, hispid, pedicel 0.8–1 cm long; receptacle campanulate, 1–2 mm long, glabrous except at throat; sepals triangular, 3–4 mm long, pubescent, reflexed; petals white, rounded, ca. 4 mm long, glabrous; stamens vinaceous, 7, inserted unilaterally, united at base, filaments ca. 1 cm long; ovary ca. 1 mm long, sericeous, style ca. 1.2 cm long, hispid at base. Immature drupe green, obovoid, sessile, 0.9–2 × 0.4–0.7 cm, epicarp longitudinally striate, pubescent.

Selected material examined: Conceição da Barra, Trilha do Canastra, Flona do Rio Preto , 29.III.2019, fl., J. Gurtler 654 (RB, VIES) . Domingos Martins, Rio Jucu , 25.I.2001, fl., O.J. Pereira 6840 ( VIES) . Itarana, Alto Jatiboca, Fazenda de Frederico Sadler , 26.II.2003, fr., J.A. Lombardi 5212 ( MBM, UNOP) . Linhares, Reserva Natural Vale, Estrada 162, km 1200, lado direito, 10.XII.1979, fl., I.A. Silva 131 (RB, NY, RBR) . Marilândia, Alto Liberdade, propriedade de Deuclecio Lorenzini , 19.IV.2006, fl., L.F.S. Magnago 937

( MBML).Santa Leopoldina, Serra do Ramalhete, Fazenda Caioaba, propriedade Cláudio Virloni, trilha da divisa,

lado esquerdo, 16.II.2006, fl., V. Demuner 1866 ( MBML) .

Santa Teresa , Estrada do Vinte e Cinco de Julho, terreno do Fracalossi, 6.IV.1999, fl., L. Kollmann 2380 ( MBML); Lombardia, 25.I.1954, fl., J. Dolbolmo (RB86219) .

Hirtella hebeclada is similar to H. santosii in leaf shape (elliptic in H. hebeclada vs. elliptic to oblong-elliptic in H. santosii ), with hispid indumentum on the lamina surface, midrib, petiole, stipules, inflorescence, bracts and bracteoles, the racemose inflorescence and same number of stamens (7). However, H. hebeclada can be distinguished by the shortly acuminate leaves, with cuneate base and lower number of primary veins (8–10 vs. 11–13 pairs). Collected with flowers from December to April and with immature fruits in February.

Hirtella hebeclada is restricted to Brazil and occurs in EspÍrito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo ( Asprino 2023). In EspÍrito Santo it occurs in Restinga, Ombrophilous forest and Mata de Tabuleiro, in the municipalities of Conceição da Barra , Domingos Martins, Itarana, Linhares, Marilândia, Santa Leopoldina and Santa Teresa. It has been collected in four protected areas, Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, Floresta Nacional do Rio Preto , Reserva Biológica Augusto Ruschi and Reserva Natural Vale .

VIES

Federal University of Espírito Santo

MBM

San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammals

RBR

Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

MBML

Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Siluriformes

Family

Loricariidae

Genus

Hirtella

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