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Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos

Myrtaceae · Brazil Southeast

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Plinia spirito-santensis, commonly known as jabuticaba peluda de cruz (hairy cross jaboticaba) or Grimal in the United States, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to broad-leafed coastal forests, at altitude, in eastern Brazil. The plant is a semideciduous shrub or small tree which can grow to between 3 and 6 metres (9.8 and 20 ft) tall. It produces edible deep reddish-purple berries, up to 30 mm (1.2 in) in diameter. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Plinia spirito-santensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Plinia

Plinia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to Central and South America as well as the West Indies.Species

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Plinia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3716669 (Myrciaria spirito-sanctensis Mattos, 0 records), 10980288 (Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos, 7 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeBrazil Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-19.151, -40.071 · in the densest population, 6 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3716669 (Myrciaria spirito-sanctensis Mattos): Kew's file holds it as Myrciaria spirito-sanctensis Mattos (synonym under Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 10980288 (Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos): Kew's file holds it as Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos (accepted); 7 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Plinia 6 in the reference

Plinia cauliflora Plinia cauliflora Brazilian grapetree Photo: CC BY, The Great WalterPlinia edulis Plinia edulis Myrtaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPlinia inflata Plinia inflata Myrtaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPlinia phitrantha Plinia phitrantha Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, sheylarossi Plinia salticola Myrtaceae Plinia trunciflora Myrtaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Myrciaria spirito-sanctensis. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

IPNIPOWOWikidataWFOWikipedia

The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
(Mattos) Mattos
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
6 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos (plant_name_id 161412), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 3716669, Myrciaria spirito-sanctensis Mattos (Kew's file holds it as Myrciaria spirito-sanctensis Mattos (synonym under Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos)): GBIF occurrence search API; 7 records of GBIF's key 10980288, Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos (Kew's file holds it as Plinia spirito-sanctensis (Mattos) Mattos (accepted)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 1004314-1, POWO 1004314-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Plinia spirito-santensis, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q15377363)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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