Taxon Details: Miconia morii Almeda
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Family:
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Miconia morii Almeda
Miconia morii Almeda
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Description Author and Date: Frank Almeda, based on Almeda, F. (2009). Melastomataceae. In: G. Davidse, M. Sousa-Sânchez, S. Knapp, & F. Chiang (eds.), Flora Mesoamericana: Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): 164-338.
Type: Holotype: Panama, Mori et al. 3773 (CAS!).
Description: Shrub 1 .2-3 m tall, the uppermost compressed-rounded to obtusely quadrangular branchlets, vegetative buds, young leaves and petioles, inflorescence branches, hypanthia, and pedicels moderately to densely appressed-puberulous with brown stellulate hairs. Leaves of a pair equal to somewhat unequal in size, blades 3-nerved, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 6.5-10.5 x 2.5-5 cm, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, margin entire, adaxially glabrous or essentially so, abaxially moderately to sparsely stellulate-puberulous but sometimes becoming glabrate with age; petioles 0.9-1 .5 cm long. Inflorescence a multiflowered panicle 8-11 cm long, branching at or 2-2.5 cm above the node initiating the inflorescence; flowers 5-merous on pedicels 0.5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles evidently early deciduous and not seen. Calyx tube 2-2.5 mm long, flangelike apically and sometimes splitting vertically down toward the torus at one or more points, the calyx lobes essentially obsolete, only evident as a truncate rim; exterior calyx teeth barely evident as blunt callosities ca. 0.25 mm. Petals adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely stellulate-puberulous, oblong-obovate, 5.5-7 X 4-5 mm. Anthers isomorphic, 4-4.25 mm long, linear-oblong to subulate, rounded at the apex and opening by a ventrally inclined pore; connective elevated dorso-basally into an elongate padlike thickening 1 mm long. Style glandular-puberulent along the basal third of its length, 6 mm long, stigma capitate; ovary 5-locular, ¼-inferior (in fruit), apex conical, inconspicuously glandular-puberulent, terminating in a shallowly undulate collar 0.25 mm high that is typically glabrate but sometimes with a few minute glandular hairs on the rim. Berry 4-6 X 5-7 mm. Seeds ± triangular in outline, rounded to angulate on the convex face, the testa smooth with a dull luster, 0.5-1 mm long, brown.
Habitat and Distribution: Local and uncommon in low cloud forest. 900-1000 m. PANAMA (Antonio 4725, CAS). (Endemic.)
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]
Description Author and Date: Frank Almeda, based on Almeda, F. (2009). Melastomataceae. In: G. Davidse, M. Sousa-Sânchez, S. Knapp, & F. Chiang (eds.), Flora Mesoamericana: Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): 164-338.
Type: Holotype: Panama, Mori et al. 3773 (CAS!).
Description: Shrub 1 .2-3 m tall, the uppermost compressed-rounded to obtusely quadrangular branchlets, vegetative buds, young leaves and petioles, inflorescence branches, hypanthia, and pedicels moderately to densely appressed-puberulous with brown stellulate hairs. Leaves of a pair equal to somewhat unequal in size, blades 3-nerved, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 6.5-10.5 x 2.5-5 cm, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, margin entire, adaxially glabrous or essentially so, abaxially moderately to sparsely stellulate-puberulous but sometimes becoming glabrate with age; petioles 0.9-1 .5 cm long. Inflorescence a multiflowered panicle 8-11 cm long, branching at or 2-2.5 cm above the node initiating the inflorescence; flowers 5-merous on pedicels 0.5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles evidently early deciduous and not seen. Calyx tube 2-2.5 mm long, flangelike apically and sometimes splitting vertically down toward the torus at one or more points, the calyx lobes essentially obsolete, only evident as a truncate rim; exterior calyx teeth barely evident as blunt callosities ca. 0.25 mm. Petals adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely stellulate-puberulous, oblong-obovate, 5.5-7 X 4-5 mm. Anthers isomorphic, 4-4.25 mm long, linear-oblong to subulate, rounded at the apex and opening by a ventrally inclined pore; connective elevated dorso-basally into an elongate padlike thickening 1 mm long. Style glandular-puberulent along the basal third of its length, 6 mm long, stigma capitate; ovary 5-locular, ¼-inferior (in fruit), apex conical, inconspicuously glandular-puberulent, terminating in a shallowly undulate collar 0.25 mm high that is typically glabrate but sometimes with a few minute glandular hairs on the rim. Berry 4-6 X 5-7 mm. Seeds ± triangular in outline, rounded to angulate on the convex face, the testa smooth with a dull luster, 0.5-1 mm long, brown.
Habitat and Distribution: Local and uncommon in low cloud forest. 900-1000 m. PANAMA (Antonio 4725, CAS). (Endemic.)
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]