Miconia reburrosa Wurdack (1967: 23)

Paredes-Burneo, Diego, Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Abstract, Asunción Cano, 2018, Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru, Phytotaxa 349 (3), pp. 237-246 : 241-242

Miconia reburrosa Wurdack (1967: 23) . Fig. 3E .

Shrub 3.5 m. Young branchlets, petioles, leaf nerves below and inflorescences setose to setulose. Young branchlets terete. Leaf blades elliptic, above bullate and stellulate-furfuraceous, 5(–7)-nerved. Dioecious plant; pistillate flowers 5-merous (only pistillate flowers seen).

Distribution in Peru:—Montane forests on eastern slopes, between 2350 and 2450 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, Sapalache, en la trocha de Chinguela en dirección de playón, 2431 m, Bernard Peyton, N.Y.Z.S 20 (USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, comunidad Campesina Segundo y Cajas, caserío Batán, 2357 m, 17M 681553 9435254, 27 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva & Elluz Huamán 548 (NY, USM).

Figures

FIGURE 3. A, B, Meriania rigida (A, Paredes 526; B, Michelangeli 2635); C, D, E, Meriania sanguinea (C y E: Michelangeli 2618, D: Paredes 520). Photographs by Fabián A. Michelangeli (B, C, E), Diego Paredes-Burneo (A) and Marco Cueva (D).