Dorstenia milaneziana Carauta, C.Valente & Sucre
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Authority
Berg, Cornelius C. 2001. Moreae, Artocarpeae, and
(Moraceae): With introductions to the family and and with additions and corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 83: 1-346. (Published by NYBG Press) -
Family
Moraceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Brazil. Espirito Santo: Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, 25 Apr 1972, Sucre 8961 (holotype, RB; isotypes, F, GUA, HB, MICH, R, SP).
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Synonyms
Dorstenia gracilis Carauta, C.Valente & D.S.D.Araujo
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Description
Species Description - Herb, to 20 cm tall; stem partly repent to rhizomatous, slender, 1-2.5 mm thick, hirtellous with straight and uncinate hairs; internodes to 1 (-1.5) cm long. Leaves in spirals; lamina oblong to lanceolate or to elliptic, often subovate or subobovate, 1-10(-12) × 0.5-4(-5) cm, chartaceous to membranaceous, often variegated; apex acute to subobtuse to subacuminate or to rounded; base (subcordate; margin repand to ± coarsely crenate-dentate; upper surface hirtellous to strigose to hispidulous, often distinctly punctate; lower surface puberulous, on the main veins to hirtellous with straight and uncinate hairs, or partly hispidulous; lateral veins 3-10 pairs, loop-connected (sometimes faintly so); tertiary venation reticulate, sometimes partly subscalariform; petiole 0.5-l(-2.5) cm long, hirtellous with straight and uncinate hairs, or partly hispidulous; stipules narrowly triangular to subulate, 0.2-0.5 cm long, coriaceous, uninervate, patent to ± deflexed, sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Inflorescences green; peduncle 0.7-1.5 (-2) cm long, puberulous to (brownish-)hirtellous with patent or ± retrorse hairs; receptacle centrally attached, broadly turbinate to discoid, suborbicular to ± angular in outline, 0.3-1(-1.3) cm diam., the outside puberulous to hirtellous with ± retrorse hairs, the margin subentire to dentate to subappendiculate, the fringe distinct, to 1.5 mm broad, minutely puberulous; bracts in ca. 4 rows, most of them on the margin and on the fringe, a few below the margin, most of them narrowly ovate, to 0.5 mm long and ciliolate, a few marginal and submarginal ones distinctly larger, to 1.3 mm long and often setulose (or the marginal teeth setulose); staminate flowers in the periphery of the flowering face, or a few among the pistillate flowers; tepals 2; stamens 2; filaments almost as long as the perianth; stigmas slightly unequal in length, ca. 0.3 mm long. Endocarp body ca. 2 × 2 mm, distinctly tuberculate, pale brown.
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Discussion
The species is rather variable in the dimensions of the leaves and the inflorescences and approaches Dorstenia setosa.
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Distribution
In eastern Brazil (Bahia and Espírito Santo); in moist and shaded places; at low elevations.
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