Meriania rigida (Benth.) Triana (1871: 66)

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

Meriania rigida (Benth.) Triana (1871: 66) . Figs. 2D, 2E .

Tree 8 to 10 m. Glabrous. Leaf blades coriaceous, shortly 5-plinerved (in Peruvian specimens); with strictly elliptic leaf blades (Peruvian specimens). Flowers 5-merous; petal red-lilac; anthers and filaments lilac, connective appendage yellow.

Distribution in Peru:—Montane forests on eastern slopes, at 2800 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, Cerro Chinguela ; catarata Chorro Blanco, 2803 m, 17M 677037 9432488, 25 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva & Elluz Huamán 526 ( NY, USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, carretera Sapalache – Cerro Chinguelas, 6.5 Km después de Sapalache, catarata de Chorro Blanco, 2780 m, 5°8’9.7’’S 79°24’12.7’’W, 09 March 2016, F. A. Michelangeli, D. F. Paredes M. Gavrutenko 2635 ( NY, 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).