Miconia grayana Cogn. (1891: 896)

Paredes-Burneo, Diego, Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Abstract, Asunción Cano, 2018, Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru, Phytotaxa 349 (3), pp. 237-246 : 240-241

Miconia grayana Cogn. (1891: 896) . Fig. 3D .

Shrub 1.5 m. Young branchlets glabrous and terete with stipuliform flaps. Leaf blades oblong-elliptic, both on both surfaces, ciliolate-serrulate, 3–5-plinerved. Flowers 6-merous; anthers with a small dorsal pore. Fruits with the calyx tube very conspicuous, about 5 mm long.

Distribution in Peru:—Montane forests, on both western and eastern slopes, between 2400 and 3077 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Ayabaca: Ayabaca, Bosque de Cuyas, 2400 m, 06 jul 2000, A. Sagástegui A. 16205 (F). Ayabaca, a las afueras del Bosque de Cuyas (área conservada), en borde de carretera, 2412 m, 17M 642521 9491872, 21 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes 480 (USM). Ayabaca, 21 jul 2006, Margarita Farfán Sandoval 249

(HUT). Ayabaca, montaña de Cuyas a 8 Km de la ciudad de Ayabaca., 2000–2420 m, 05 June 1996, V. Quipuscoa S. 717 ( HUT, USM). 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 534 ( 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).