Miconia dodecandra Cogn.

  • Family

    Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)

  • Scientific Name

    Miconia dodecandra Cogn.

  • 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: Jamaica(?), T. Clarke (“Clarck”) s.n. (P)

    Description: Trees 5-15 m tall, the branchlets, lower leaf surfaces, bracteoles, inflorescences, and hypanthia densely ferrugineous stellate-pubescent, some of the hairs stipitate-stellate. Leaves 5-nerved, elliptic-ovate, (7-)10-17.5 X 3-9.5 cm, adaxially glabrous, apex gradually short-acuminate, base obtuse to rounded or truncate, the margin entire; petioles 1-6 cm long. Panicle 8-15 cm long; flowers mostly 6-merous on peduncles 2-7 mm long, each subtended by a deciduous pair of elliptic-ovate foliaceous bracteoles 6-10 X 6-9 mm. Calyx 2 mm long from the torus, the rounded irregular lobes stellulate-puberulent on both surfaces. Petals glabrous, obovate-oblong, 6-8 X 2.5-4 mm. Anthers somewhat anisomorphic, linear-subulate, 6-9 mm long, yellow, the pore ventrally inclined; connective not prolonged but bluntly bilobulate ventro-basally. Style sparsely stellulate-puberulous, 9-10 mm long; stigma capitate; ovary (3-)4-5-locular, ca. 1/5 inferior, apex stellulate-puberulent; berry 6-6 X 5-7 mm, purple at maturity. Seeds ovoid to pyramidate, shallowly foveolate-reticulate, 1 mm long.

    Habitat and Distribution: Locally common, cloud forest, pasture fencerows, disturbed sites. 600-2000 m. Southern Mexico (Oaxaca and Veracruz southward), Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles (Dominica), Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam, Venezuela and Colombia south to Bolivia and S Brazil. MEXICO: Chiapas (Breedlove & Almeda 47543, CAS); BELIZE (Holst 4268, CAS); GUATEMALA (Croat 41372, CAS); HONDURAS (Aguilar & Evans 4081, CAS); NICARAGUA (Sandino 4695, CAS); COSTA RICA (Almeda & Nakai 3930, CAS); PANAMA (Almeda et al. 6436, CAS).

    Taxonomy and Systematics: The filaments and anthers of this species change from yellow to red with age.

    Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]

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