Five new species of Huberia (Melastomataceae) from the eastern Brazilian mountains Author Bochorny, Thuane 0000-0003-4278-4520 Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Author Gonella, Paulo M. 0000-0001-8332-5326 Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil Author Gonçalves, Lucas N. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Author Völtz, Rafael R. 0000-0001-8084-4251 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Author Goldenberg, Renato 0000-0002-7047-6720 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Botânica, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil text Plant Ecology and Evolution 2025 2025-01-22 158 1 23 42 journal article 307811 10.5091/plecevo.134375 8821c8bd-cc17-4e79-a309-62f214267de9

Table 2. Morphological comparison between the five newly described species of Huberia, as well as Huberia comosa.

Character	H. comosa	H. campostriniae	H. ciliata	H. mayarae	H. revoluta	H. rubricalyx
Indumentum (branches, petioles, inflorescences)	Glabrous (except for very short comose-glandulose tufts on nodes and leaf margins)	Moderately covered with sessile glands	Densely covered with stalked glands (and evenly so)	Densely covered with long stalked glands	Sparsely to moderately covered with sessile glands and also sparsely covered with stalked glands	Sparsely covered with stalked glands (but denser on nodes)
Indumentum (leaf adaxial surface)	Glabrous	Moderately covered with sessile glands 0.1–0.2 mm long	Moderately covered with stalked glands 1–1.5 mm long	Glabrous	Sparsely to moderately covered with sessile glands 0.2–0.4 mm long	Glabrous
Indumentum (leaf abaxial surface)	Glabrous (except for tufts of the same comose-glandulose trichomes on the axils of the main nerves)	Moderately covered with sessile glands 0.1–0.2 mm long	Moderately covered with stalked glands 0.5–1 mm long	Glabrous	Sparsely to moderately covered with sessile glands (plus stalked glands 0.5–1 mm long only on the veins)	Sparsely covered with stalked glands ca 0.1 mm long
Leaf base	Obtuse or rounded	Rounded	Rounded	Subcordate	Obtuse to subcordate	Subcordate
Leaf venation	Suprabasal	Basal	Basal	Basal	Basal	Basal
Calyx margins	Eciliolate or ciliolate-glandular, in this case minute cilia ca 0.1 mm long and lacking well-defined gland heads	Ciliolate-glandular, the cilia 0.5 mm long and the gland heads globose	Ciliolate-glandular, the cilia ca 0.5 mm long and the gland heads globose	Ciliolate-glandular, the cilia ca 0.5 mm long and the gland heads globose	Ciliolate-glandular, the cilia 0.5 mm long and the gland heads globose	Ciliolate-glandular, the purple cilia 0.3–1 mm long and the gland heads globose
Stamen dorsal appendages (mm)	1–1.2	ca 2–2.5	ca 1.5	ca 3	ca 3	3–4.5
Ovary	3 - locular, apex with 4 glabrous lobes	4 - locular, apex with 8 lobes, each one with long stalked glands	4 - locular, apex without lobes, but with long stalked glands	4 - locular, apex without lobes, glabrous	4 - locular, apex with 10 lobes, each one with long stalked glands	4 - locular, apex with 10 lobes, each one with long stalked glands
Style (mm)	6.5–8.5	ca 5	ca 5.5	ca 9.5	ca 6	ca 11.5