Miconia castillensis Wurdack (1967: 30)

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

Miconia castillensis Wurdack (1967: 30) . Fig. 3A .

Shrub 1.5 m. Young branchlets, petioles, leaf blades below and inflorescences setulose with smooth hairs; young branchlets quadrangular. Leaf blades elliptic, coriaceous and ciliolate-serrulate, glabrous above, 3-nerved. Flowers 5-merous, anthers broadly bipored.

Distribution in Peru:—Paramos, in shrublands at 3350 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, Carretera Huancabamba–Talaneo, entre Salalá y la cumbre de carretera, 3350 m, 5°6’48.4’’S 79°28’21.4’’W, 10 March 2016, F. A. Michelangeli, D. F. Paredes & M. Gavrutenko 2642 (USM, NY).

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).