“…Seeds of Eugenia species that have been studied and described in the literature up to now are intolerant to desiccation (Andrade et al, 2003;Maluf et al, 2003;Masetto et al, 2008;Delgado and Barbedo, 2012;Scalon et al, 2012;Calvi et al, 2017a;Silva et al 2017;Lamarca et al, 2020). Seeds intolerant to desiccation, popularly known as recalcitrant or intermediate seeds, unlike those tolerant to desiccation, called orthodox seeds, do not form a seed bank Mean values followed by the same letter (lowercase comparing periods, uppercase comparing water potentials) do not differ from each other by Tukey's test at 5%.…”