Miconia minuta Gleason (1925: 450)

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

Miconia minuta Gleason (1925: 450) . Fig. 3G .

Tree 9 m. Young branchlets, petioles, primary leaf nerves beneath and inflorescences puberulous with pinoid hairs (only for Peruvian specimens). Young branchlets quadrangular. Leaf blades elliptic, ciliolate to crenulate (and mucronate in Peruvian specimens), glabrous above, 5-nerved. Flowers 5-merous.

Distribution in Peru:—Montane forest on eastern slopes, at 1979 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, caserío Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 1979 m, 17M 682670 9452404, 29 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva, Elluz Huamán & Ermitanio Melendrez 571 (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).