Taxon Details: Tococa tepuiensis Wurdack subsp. tepuiensis
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Family:

Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:

Tococa tepuiensis Wurdack subsp. tepuiensis
Primary Citation:

Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 10(5): 176. 1964
Accepted Name:

This name is currently accepted.
Type Specimens:

Specimen 1: Isotype -- J. A. Steyermark
Specimen 2: Paratype -- B. Maguire
Specimen 3: Paratype -- B. Maguire
Description:

Description Author and Date: Fabian A. Michelangeli, January 2010, based on Michelangeli, F. A. (2005). Tococa (Melastomataceae). Flora Neotropica Monographs 98: 1-114.

Description: Leaves adaxial surface densely adpressed-setose, abaxial surface with a mix of short lepidote hairs and very sparse long glandular setae on the nerves, the remaining surface glabrous to sparsely glandular setose, the apex acute.

Habitat and Distribution: Growing in forests at the base and summits of the Guayana highlands in S Venezuela and N Brazil.

Taxonomy and Systematics: For additional description data and comments on relationships and similar species, see the discussion under Tococa tepuiensis/a>.

Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):

Tococa tepuiensis Wurdack subsp. tepuiensis: [Article] Maguire, Bassett & Wurdack, John J. 1964. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part V. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 10: 1-278.
Tococa tepuiensis Wurdack subsp. tepuiensis: [Article] Michelangeli, Fabián A. 2005. (Melastomataceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 98: 1-114.
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