Myrciaria

Myrciaria is a genus of large shrubs and small trees described as a genus in 1856. It is native to Central and South America, Mexico, and the West Indies, with many of the species endemic to Brazil. 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.


 * accepted species

• # 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 )