Curitiba prismatica is a species of tree in the family Myrtaceae.[1] It is only species in the genus Curitiba, the species was originally described as Eugeniaprismatica by D. Legrand in 1969 and moved to its own genus by Andrew M. Salywon and Leslie Roger Landrum in 2007.[2] In Portuguese the species goes by the common names Cambuí, Guamirim, Mureira, and Murta. The species is listed as vulnerable by the ICUN.[1]
