| Myrciaria | |
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| Seeds of M. dubia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Subfamily: | Myrtoideae |
| Tribe: | Myrteae |
| Genus: | Myrciaria O.Berg[1] |
| Type species | |
| Myrciaria tenella | |
| Synonyms[4][1] | |
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Myrciaria is a genus of large shrubs and small trees described as a genus in 1856.[5][3] It is native to Central and South America, Mexico, and the West Indies, with many of the species endemic to Brazil.[4] Common names include hivapuru, sabará, and ybapuru.
The jaboticabas are a significant commercial fruit in Brazil. The fruit is grapelike in size and appearance, and often likened to a muscadine grape in taste. Myrciaria dubia, the camu-camu berry, is grown primarily in flood-zone areas of Peru and has one of the highest vitamin C (ascorbic acid) concentrations of any fruit, alongside Terminalia ferdinandiana.
- Myrciaria alagoana Sobral - Alagoas
- Myrciaria alta T.B.Flores & Sobral - Espírito Santo
- Myrciaria borinquena Alain - Puerto Rico
- Myrciaria cambuca Costa-Lima & E.C.O.Chagas - E Brazil
- Myrciaria cordata O.Berg - Guyana, Bolívar, N Brazil
- Myrciaria cuspidata O.Berg - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
- Myrciaria delicatula (DC.) O.Berg - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina
- Myrciaria disticha O.Berg - E Brazil
- Myrciaria dubia (Kunth) McVaugh – Camu-camu - Guyana, Venezuela, N Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Myrciaria evanida Sobral - E Brazil
- Myrciaria ferruginea O.Berg - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Myrciaria floribunda (H.West ex Willd.) O.Berg – Rumberry, guavaberry - from Mexico + West Indies to Paraguay
- Myrciaria glanduliflora (Kiaersk.) Mattos & D.Legrand - Minas Gerais
- Myrciaria glazioviana (Kiaersk.) G.M.Barroso ex Sobral – Cabeludinha, yellow jaboticaba - E Brazil
- Myrciaria glomerata O.Berg – Red cabeludinha - E Brazil
- Myrciaria guaquiea (Kiaersk.) Mattos & D.Legrand - E Brazil
- Myrciaria ibarrae Lundell - Guatemala, Campeche, Quintana Roo
- Myrciaria myrtifolia Alain - Puerto Rico
- Myrciaria pallida O.Berg - SE Brazil
- Myrciaria pilosa Sobral & Couto - Bahia, Minas Gerais
- Myrciaria plinioides Legr. - S Brazil
- Myrciaria puberulenta B.Holst - S Venezuela
- Myrciaria racemosa M.L.Kawas. - Ecuador
- Myrciaria rojasii D.Legrand. - Brazil, Paraguay
- Myrciaria rupestris (Ekman & Urb.) Z.Acosta - W Cuba
- Myrciaria strigipes O.Berg – Beach cabeludinha - E Brazil
- Myrciaria tenella (DC.) O.Berg - Hispaniola, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, N Argentina
- Myrciaria una Costa-Lima & E.C.O.Chagas - NE Brazil
- Myrciaria vexator McVaugh – Blue grape - Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela
- Myrciaria vismeifolia (Benth.) O.Berg- Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, N Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
Formerly placed here
- Plinia cauliflora (Gardner) O.Berg (as M. cauliflora (Mart.) O.Berg and *M. jaboticaba (Vell.) O.Berg)
References
- ^ a b "Genus: Myrciaria O. Berg". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
- ^ lectotype designated by McVaugh, Taxon 5: 143 (30 Jul 1956)
- ^ a b Tropicos, Myrciaria O.Berg
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Berg, Otto Karl. 1856. Linnaea 27(2–3): 136, 320-338 in Latin
- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Myrciaria". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
- ^ "Myrciaria O.Berg". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2021-01-15.