Brachyotum jamesonii Triana (1871: 49)

Paredes-Burneo, Diego, Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Abstract, Asunción Cano, 2018, Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru, Phytotaxa 349 (3), pp. 237-246 : 239-240

Brachyotum jamesonii Triana (1871: 49) . Fig. 2C .

Small shrub 1–1.5 m. Young stems, leaf blades and hypanthium with smooth hairs. Blades elliptic and flowers 4- merous; in Peruvian specimens, each flower subtended by two pairs of bracteoles. Petals purple.

Distribution in Peru:—Paramos, in shrublands around lakes, between 3500 and 3700 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Ayabaca: Ayabaca, comunidad Samanga, sector Espíndola. Laguna Prieta,

3504 m, 17M 671150 9475796, 23 October 2015, Diego F.Paredes 505 (USM). Comunidad Samanga, sector Espíndola. Laguna Prieta, 3494 m, 17M 670695 9476116, 23 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes 508 (NY, USM). Huancabamba: Cordillére de Huancabamba. Las Huaringas.Au-dessous de la Laguna Negra, 3700 m, 29 nov 1961, Claudine Friedberg 819 ( US, USM).

Figures

FIGURE 2. A, B, Axinaea sclerophylla (A: Paredes 531; B: Michelangeli 2631); C: Brachyotum jamesonii (Paredes 505). Photographs by Diego Paredes-Burneo and (A, C) Fabián A. Michelangeli (B).