Accara

Accara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Accara; L.R.Landrum
Species:	A. elegans
Binomial name
	Accara elegans; (DC.) L.R.Landrum
Synonyms
	Myrtus elegans DC.; Psidium elegans (DC.) Mart. ex O.Berg 1857 not Miq. 1855; Guajava elegans (DC.) Kuntze; Myrtus stictophylla Kiaersk.; Psidium stictophyllum (Kiaersk.) Mattos;

Accara elegans is the sole species of the monotypic genus Accara in the botanical family Myrtaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil, reaching 1-2m in height.^[1]

Formerly included in the genera Myrtus and Psidium, Accara differs from both the latter in embryo structure, and from the former in being pentamerous (having its parts in fives) and in bud structure. The generic name is an anagram of the type location, Caraça, and is similar to the presumably closely related genus of Acca, nowadays sometimes included in Feijoa.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Landrum, Leslie R. "Accara: A New Genus of Myrtaceae, Myrtinae from Brazil". Systematic Botany Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1990), pp. 221-225.

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[a-1] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

[2] Landrum, Leslie R. "Accara: A New Genus of Myrtaceae, Myrtinae from Brazil". Systematic Botany Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1990), pp. 221-225.

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