Clidemia japurensis De Candolle (1828: 159)

Corrêa, André Luis, Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni & Goldenberg, Renato, 2017, Melastomataceae in the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Tupé, Amazonas, Brazil, Phytotaxa 323 (2), pp. 101-127 : 112-113

12. Clidemia japurensis De Candolle (1828: 159) . ( Figure 3 F.)

Shrubs 0.60–2.1 m tall. Green and smooth rhytidome. Branches erect, cylindrical, not winged, greenish; branches, petioles, leave both side, inflorescences, hypanthium, bracts, bracteoles and fruits with glandular caducous trichomes. Leaves opposite anisophyllous; petioles circular or channelled 9.1–26.8 mm long; leaf blades 10.3–18.4 × 4.2–6.7 cm, membranous, concolorous, asymmetrical, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, base asymmetrical, apex acuminate, margins denticulate and ciliate, leaf veins 6, suprabasal; ant domatia absent. Paniculate 4.7–8 × 2.4–4.2 cm, terminal or pseudoaxillary; bracts 1–1.6 mm long, lanceolate, caducous; bracteoles 0.2–0.7 mm long. Flowers 5-merous; pedicel 1.9–4.1 mm long; hypanthium ca. 1.7 mm long, urceolate, smooth; calyx simple, persistent; lacinia triangular; petals 3 × 3.6 mm, white, obovate or ovate, symmetrical, apex rostrate, base truncate, margins not ciliate, glabrous; stamens 10, isomorphic, anthers 1.6–2.6 mm long, white, oblong, curved, apex attenuate, 1 apical pore, appendaged, filament 3–3.6 mm long, glabrous; ovary ca. 1.8 mm long, inferior, placentation axillary intrusive, 3-locular, with simple trichomes; style 7.1–7.8 mm long, curved, glabrous. Berry 9.2 × 9.5 mm, unripe fruit green, ripe fruit purple; seeds numerous, triangular.

Specimens examined: — BRAZIL. Amazonas , Manaus, RDS-Tupé, 05 June 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 16 ( EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!) ; 08 June 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 21 ( EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!) ; 27 July 2012, fl., fr., A. L. Corrêa 28 ( EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!) ; 15 August 2012, fl., fr., A. L. Corrêa 39 ( EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!) ; 07 September 2012, fl, A. L. Corrêa 69 ( EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!) ; 24 October 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 78 ( INPA!) ; 07 December 2012, fl., fr., A. L. Corrêa 121 ( EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!) .

Distribution and habitat: — Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, Suriname ( Berry et al. 2001). In Brazil it occurs in Amazonian forests ( Michelangeli & Reginato 2015). In the reserve, it occurs in “terra firme”, in secondary vegetation and trail edges, on clay soil and low organic matter. Comments: —This species is frequent in the reserve. It can be easily recognized by the asymmetrical leaf base.