Miconia stenophylla Wurdack (1967: 33)

Paredes-Burneo, Diego, Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Abstract, Asunción Cano, 2018, Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru, Phytotaxa 349 (3), pp. 237-246 : 242

Miconia stenophylla Wurdack (1967: 33) . Fig. 3H .

Shrub 2 m. Branchlets, petioles and pedicels pinoid-puberulous). Leaf blades oblong, 1–3-nerved (sometimes obscured), glabrous and lustrous above, below granulose-puberulous to glabrate. Flowers 4-merous, apparently bisexual but clearly protogynous (in Peruvian specimens); style glabrescent with minute hairs.

Distribution in Peru:—Paramo, in shrublands, between 3150 and 3310 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Amazonas: Chachapoyas, uppermost slopes and summit of Puma-urcu southeast of Chachapoyas, 2900–3150 m, 01 June 1962, J. J. Wurdack 787 (NY). Piura.Ayabaca: Ayabaca, comunidad Samanga, sector Espíndola. Ladera limítrofe Perú–Ecuador, 3309 m, 17M 673133 9477162, 23 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes 497 (USM). Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, Cerro Chinguela, a 20 Km de Sapalache, 3100–3200 m, 24 abr 2006, Asunción Cano, N. Valencia & I. Salinas 16471 (USM). El Carmen de La Frontera, Carretera Sapalache–Cerro Chingelas, 12–13 Km después de Sapalache, 3150 m, 5°7’21.7’’ 79°23’10.4’’ W, 09 March 2016, F. A. Michelangeli, D. F. Paredes & M. Gavrutenko 2627 (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).