Miconia mirabilis (Aubl.) L.O.Williams

  • Filed As

    Melastomataceae
    Miconia mirabilis (Aubl.) L.O.Williams

  • Collector(s)

    G. P. Cooper 78, 27 Jan 1933

  • Location

    Dominica. "Sylvania".

  • Description

    Tree 30-40 ft. tall x 6-8" [in.] diam. Petals creamy-white. Bark fairly smooth, dirty grey-black spotted with light grey blotches. Leaves deep green glabrous above but pale greenish grey below. Petiole and stem rusty brown. Flowers on erect stalk with short lateral branching and not the usual head-like formation. Two pale creamy-white disk-like petals?? or bracts open to expose pointed center. Fruit has purple-pink tunt at apex but green at base until fully mature when it is all purple colored. The fleshy capsule and a lipped apex, beak-like in form. Usual Melatomataceae. Phenology of specimen: Fruit.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 01117184

    Occurrence ID: 3bef8b92-ef1e-4a90-a8ff-9ffd3858642d

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  • Region

    West Indies

  • Country

    Dominica

  • Locality

    "Sylvania"

  • Elevation

    Alt. 457 - 549 m. (1499 - 1801 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    15.3603, -61.3576

  • Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

    918

  • Georeferencing Method

    Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide (Zermoglio et. Used halved distance between feature and nearest named feature, Campbell, to approximate geographic radial.

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

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