Calycolpus Explained

Calycolpus is a genus of the botanical family Myrtaceae, first described as a genus in 1856.^{[1] [2]} It is native to the South America, Central America, and the West Indies.^[3]

The species formerly called Calycolpus excisus is a small tree known only from the limestone mountains of eastern Cuba, now known as Eugenia excisa. It is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened species.https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/32969/summ

Species^[3]

1. Calycolpus aequatorialis Landrum - Sucumbíos
2. Calycolpus alternifolius (Gleason) Landrum - S Venezuela
3. Calycolpus andersonii Landrum - Pará
4. Calycolpus australis Landrum - Minas Gerais
5. Calycolpus bolivarensis Landrum - Bolívar State
6. Calycolpus calophyllus (Kunth) O.Berg - Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, N Brazil
7. Calycolpus cochleatus McVaugh - Bolívar State, Guyana
8. Calycolpus goetheanus (Mart. ex DC.) O.Berg - Trinidad, N South America
9. Calycolpus legrandii Mattos - Alagoas, Bahia
10. Calycolpus moritzianus (O.Berg) Burret - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
11. Calycolpus revolutus (Schauer) O.Berg - Guyana, Suriname, Fr Guiana
12. Calycolpus roraimensis Steyerm. - Venezuela, Guyana, Rondônia, Peru
13. Calycolpus sessiliflorus Landrum - Bahia
14. Calycolpus surinamensis McVaugh - Guyana, Suriname, Pará
15. Calycolpus warscewiczianus O.Berg - Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/114321#page/352/mode/1up Berg, Otto Karl. 1856. Linnaea 27(2–3): 348, 378–384
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40035838 Tropicos, Calycolpus O. Berg
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=32009 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families