16.6- 12.3

Stigmatodon carioca Manhães, D.R.Couto & A.F.Costa

Publ: Systematic Botany 49(4): 680-686 fig. 8,9 (2025)

Type: BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Natural Monument of the Pão de Açúcar and Urca Hills, Pão de Açúcar, on vertical slopes, 22 5790299S, 43 0991699W, 190 m elevation, 15 Aug 2007, C.R.P. Franc¸a s.n. (holotype, R 212865)

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Distribution: BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro

Habitat: epilithic living on vertical granitic walls of the coastal inselbergs, ca 200 m. Elev.

Etymology: In Brazilian Portuguese, the epithet carioca refers to people native to or inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro city, a region where S. carioca occurs, highlighting its type locality on the famous Pão de Açúcar massif

Phenology: Collected with flowers between October and March, bearing fruit between January and April.

Stigmatodon carioca