Taxon Details: Miconia danielii Almeda
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Family:
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Miconia danielii Almeda
Miconia danielii 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: Costa Rica, Almeda et al. 2876 (CAS!)
Description: Shrub 1.5-3.5 m tall, the rounded-quadrate to quadrisulcate upper internodes, young petioles, primary and higher order veins on abaxial foliar surfaces, and inflorescence branches moderately to densely covered with bran-like and ± flattened dendritic hairs. Leaves of a pair essentially equal in size; blades 5-nerved, elliptic-ovate, 11.5-20 x 6-10.5 cm, the apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, the base obtuse to rounded, the margin conspicuously serrulate, the adaxial surface essentially glabrous at maturity; petioles 3.3-4.5 cm long. Inflorescence a multiflowered panicle 8-15 cm long, the 5-merous flowers on pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, the early-deciduous oblong to elliptic-oblong bracteoles 2.5-4.5 x 0.75-1 mm. Hypanthium sparingly scurfy-puberulent at the base to essentially glabrous throughout. Calyx tube 0.25 mm long, the calyx lobes broadly rounded, 0.5-0.75 x 1 mm; the exterior calyx teeth bluntly conic, 0.25 mm long, shorter than the calyx lobes. Petals white, glabrous, obovate to suborbicular, 1.5 x 1.5-2 mm. Anthers isomorphic, white, obovoid-oblong 1-1.5 mm long, 4-celled with 4 pores that are somewhat ventrally inclined; connective thickened dorsally and prolonged dorso-basally into a deflexed caudiform appendage 0.5 mm long and also prolonged ventro-basally at the base of each anther sac into a deflexed lobule 0.1 mm long. Style glabrous, 3-3.5 mm long; stigma peltate; ovary 3-locular, ½ inferior, the apex glabrous. Berry 3 x 4-5 mm when dry. Seeds narrowly ovoid, the testa vaguely granulate, 0.5 mm long.
Habitat and Distribution: Local and uncommon in cloud forest, forest margins, pastures, disturbed sites, and stream banks. 1700-2100 m. COSTA RICA (Utley & Utley 2466, 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: Costa Rica, Almeda et al. 2876 (CAS!)
Description: Shrub 1.5-3.5 m tall, the rounded-quadrate to quadrisulcate upper internodes, young petioles, primary and higher order veins on abaxial foliar surfaces, and inflorescence branches moderately to densely covered with bran-like and ± flattened dendritic hairs. Leaves of a pair essentially equal in size; blades 5-nerved, elliptic-ovate, 11.5-20 x 6-10.5 cm, the apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, the base obtuse to rounded, the margin conspicuously serrulate, the adaxial surface essentially glabrous at maturity; petioles 3.3-4.5 cm long. Inflorescence a multiflowered panicle 8-15 cm long, the 5-merous flowers on pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, the early-deciduous oblong to elliptic-oblong bracteoles 2.5-4.5 x 0.75-1 mm. Hypanthium sparingly scurfy-puberulent at the base to essentially glabrous throughout. Calyx tube 0.25 mm long, the calyx lobes broadly rounded, 0.5-0.75 x 1 mm; the exterior calyx teeth bluntly conic, 0.25 mm long, shorter than the calyx lobes. Petals white, glabrous, obovate to suborbicular, 1.5 x 1.5-2 mm. Anthers isomorphic, white, obovoid-oblong 1-1.5 mm long, 4-celled with 4 pores that are somewhat ventrally inclined; connective thickened dorsally and prolonged dorso-basally into a deflexed caudiform appendage 0.5 mm long and also prolonged ventro-basally at the base of each anther sac into a deflexed lobule 0.1 mm long. Style glabrous, 3-3.5 mm long; stigma peltate; ovary 3-locular, ½ inferior, the apex glabrous. Berry 3 x 4-5 mm when dry. Seeds narrowly ovoid, the testa vaguely granulate, 0.5 mm long.
Habitat and Distribution: Local and uncommon in cloud forest, forest margins, pastures, disturbed sites, and stream banks. 1700-2100 m. COSTA RICA (Utley & Utley 2466, CAS). (Endemic).
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]