Licania hypoleuca Benth. var. hypoleuca

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 : 28-30

7.5. Licania hypoleuca Benth. var. hypoleuca . Bot. Voy. Sulphur, 91–92, t. 32. 1844. Figs. 7 g-h; 10

Tree, up to 19 m tall, DBH 27 cm, stem 14 m, young branches glabrescent, becoming glabrous with age, lenticellate. Leaves elliptic, 4.3–6 × 2.2–3.2 cm, chartaceous, discolorous, base cuneate to obtuse, apex acuminate, acumen up to 5 mm long, glabrous adaxially, tomentulose abaxially, stomatal crypts absent, midrib plane to impressed adaxially,

prominent abaxially, glabrous abaxially, primary veins 6–7 pairs; petiole 4–5 mm long, pubescent to glabrescent, slightly canaliculate, eglandular; stipules 2, lanceolate, 2–3 mm, glabrescent, caducous. Inflorescence terminal to subterminal, racemose panicle, pubescent; bracts 1, triangular, ca. 1 mm long, pubescent, caducous; bracteoles 3, triangular, ca. 0.5 mm long, pubescent. Flowers light green, ca. 2.5 mm long, pedicellate, pedicel ca. 0.2 mm, pubescent, receptacle campanulate, ca. 1.5 mm long, sericeous on the inside; sepals triangular, ca. 0.8 mm long, pubescent; stamens 4, unilaterally, free, filaments ca. 0.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary ca. 1 mm long, sericeous; style ca. 1.5 mm long, 2/3 sericeous. Immature drupe ellipsoid, stipitate, 1–1.5 × 0.6–0.7 cm, epicarp slightly rugose, pubescent.

Material examined: Linhares, Reserva Natural Vale,

Estrada Flamengo, 8.4 km, 27.VIII.2003, fl., D.A. Folli 4586 ( CVRD, RB) .

Licania hypoleuca is quite similar to L. kunthiana , as both have elliptic acuminate leaves, of similar size, cuneate to obtuse base and petiole size, but L. hypoleuca var. hypoleuca can be distinguished by the absence of stomatal crypts, lanceolate stipules and four unilaterally inserted stamens (vs. inconspicuous stomatal crypts, linear stipules, five stamens in a complete circle in L. kunthiana ).

Licania hypoleuca occurs from Mexico to BolÍvia ( Prance & Sothers 2003a). In Brazil it occurs in the Amazon region, Bahia and EspÍrito Santo ( Sothers & Prance 2023f). In EspÍrito Santo it was collected in Mata de Tabuleiro, only in the municipality of Linhares, which suggests a higher threat level for the species in the state. It was collected in one protected area, Reserva Natural Vale.

The common name for this species is milhoassado (D.A. Folli 4586).