Conostegia povedae
Miconia povedae
A Monograph of Conostegia (Melastomataceae, Miconieae)
Kriebel, Ricardo
PhytoKeys
2016
2016-07-20
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(Kriebel & Oviedo) Kriebel
Kriebel
2016
Kriebel & Oviedo
2016
Magnoliopsida
Melastomataceae
Conostegia
CoL
Plantae
Conostegia povedae
Myrtales
211
212
Tracheophyta
species
povedae
comb. nov.
Conostegiapovedae(Kriebel & Oviedo) Kriebel. Basionym: Miconia povedaeKriebel & Oviedo, Phytotaxa 126 (1): 57. 2013. Type: Costa Rica. Puntarenas; Estacion BiologicaLas Cruces. En el Sendero Gamboa, 1157 m, 5 September 2008, 8.789333N, - 82.970250W, F. Oviedo-Brenes 231 (holotype HLDG!, isotype CR!).
Description. Shrub to small tree to 2.5-4 m tall. Young branches tomentose with golden to orange indument consisting of dendritic to stellate trichomes. The interpetiolar line inconspicuous and covered by indument as in the stems. Leaves sessile or subsessile, somewhat anisophyllous. Leaf blades 9-24 x5-9 cm, 3-5-plinerved, with the innermost pair of veins diverging from the midvein 1.5-7 cm above the base generally in asymmetric fashion, elliptic to obovate, the base attenuate, apex acuminate, the margin subentire to denticulate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially moderately stellate pubescent on tertiary and higher order veins. Inflorescence a terminal and deflexed panicle with dichasial branches, 5-10 cm long, with about 3-7 sessile flowers clustered at the end of the branches; bracts 2, 3-10 mm long, elliptic to ovate, persistent; bracteoles 2, ovate, ca. 1-2 x0.5-1.25 mm, persistent. Flower buds 4-5 mm long, with the petals forming an acuminate cone when mature. Hypanthium narrowly campanulate, sparsely stellate. Flowers 5(-6) merous, calyx not calyptrate but with the calyx lobes fused and irregularly rupturing in their early stages, the calyx tube 0.3-0.5 mm, the teeth 0.25-0.4 mm long, linear-oblong. Petals 4.5-5.5 x2-2.5 mm, white, spreading at anthesis, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apically acute, glabrous. Stamens 10(12), 4-5 mm long, radially arranged around the style, the filament 2.25-2.75 mm long with a geniculation near the apex, white, anthers 1.5-2 x0.6-0.8 mm, elliptic, somewhat laterally compressed, lacking an appendage or collar at the anther filament junction, yellow, pore ca. 0.15 mm wide, terminating the truncate apex. Ovary 5-locular, half superior, the apex beset with small brown glandular trichomes and elevated into a collar ca. 0.25 mm high around the style. Style ca. 6.4 mm long, straight to slightly curving, the stigma truncate, ca. 0.38 wide, the distance between the anther apex and the stigma ca. 1.5 mm, stigma truncate to capitellate, ca. 0.3 mm wide. Berry and seeds not seen. Figure 186. Conostegia povedae. AFertile branch and adaxial leaf surfaces BAbaxial leaf surfaces CInflorescence showing clustered sessile flowers DClose up of the flower EFlower cluster terminating an inflorescence branch FFlower bud GView of the hypanthium from outside, note the acute calyx teeth on the rounded calyx lobes HLongitudinal cut of a flower with petals, stamens, and style removed IOvary apex with minute glands JPetal KLateral view of the stamen LStyle. Photographs of the type by Federico Oviedo.
Distribution (Fig. 187). Endemic to the remaining primary forest in San Vito de Coto Brus, Puntarenas, Costa Rica at 1100-1200 m elevation. Figure 187.Distribution of Conostegia povedae. Conostegia povedaeis a very narrow endemic easy to recognize because of its rusty indument, sessile leaves with attenuate leaf bases and which are strongly plinerved, and sessile flowers in clusters that when in bud have a fused calyx that ruptures irregularly. In their evidently yellow anthers, exserted styles, and geniculate filaments, Conostegia povedaeshows the typical floral morphology present in section Geniculatae.
Specimens examined. COSTA RICA. Puntarenas: Estacion BiologicaLas Cruces, en el Sendero Gamboa, Oviedo-Brenes and Zahawi 1215 (HLDG); en el sendero Melissa, bosque maduro bastante denso, Oviedo-Brenes 1908 (HLDG).