Miconia jahnii Pittier (1924: 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 jahnii Pittier (1924: 450) . Fig. 3F .

Tree 12 m. Young branchlets, leaf blades below, inflorescence and hypanthium puberulous with pinoid hairs. Young branchlets quadrangular, 5-nerved, above glabrous and lustrous. Flowers 5-sessile; stamens slightly dimorphic, connective slightly trilobulate, anthers bipored.

Distribution in Peru —Montane forests on eastern slopes, between 3050 and 3100 m.

Specimens examined.— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, cerro Chinguela ; parte alta, límite de superior del bosque, 3077 m, 17M 677843 9432600, 25 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva & Elluz Huamán 539 ( 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).