Miconia pepericarpa DC.

  • Family

    Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)

  • Scientific Name

    Miconia pepericarpa DC.

  • Primary Citation

    Prodr. (DC.) 3: 182. 1828

  • Description

    Description Author and Date: Description by Mayara K. Caddah, 2013.

    Type: Brazil. Minas Gerais. Martius 16 (holotype: M [barcode 0165636], isotypes: BR, G-DC-fragment, M).

    Description: Shrub to trees up to 5 m tall; young branches slightly flattened, without or just tiny interpetiolar ridges, densely covered by flattened, sessile-stellate trichomes, ca. 0.1 mm diam., turning an amourfous indument in older branches. Leaves discolorous; petioles 0.5-1.2 cm; blades 6-12.5 x (0.8)1.2-3 cm, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, apex acute, base acute, margin entire, membranaceous, longitudinal nerves 3, with a very faint additional, marginal pair, basal to shortly supra-basal, up to 5 mm above the base, abaxial surface with a dense, yellowish, indument consisting of sessile-stellate trichomes, ca. 0.1-0.2 mm diam. Panicles 2.5-11 x 1-2.5 cm, glomerulate, terminal, few branched, densely covered by sessile-stellate trichomes, ca. 0.1-0.2 mm diam.; bracts up to 4.4 mm, lanceolate, caducous to persistent. Flowers 4(5)-merous. Hypanthium 1.1-1.6 mm long, campanulate, inner surface glabrous, outer densely covered by sessile-stellate trichomes, ca. 0.1 mm diam., and pellucid granules; torus glabrous. Calyx lobate, persistent in fruit, inner surface glabrous, outer with trichomes similar to the ones on the hypanthium; tube 0.2 mm long, inner lobes about 0.1 mm long, outer teeth subulate. Petals 0.9-1.4 x 0.4 mm. Stamens white, slightly dimorphic to isomorphic; filaments 0.7-0.9 mm long, glabrous; connectives up to 0.2 mm prolonged below the thecae, unnapendaged; anthers 0.5- 0.6 mm long, shortly oblong, with a single terminal, moderate pore, ca. 0.2- mm diam. Ovary 0.6-0.9 mm long, 2/3 adherent to the hypanthium, 2-3-locular, apex sparsely covered by sessille-stellate; style 3 mm long. Fruits up to 2.6 x 2.1 mm, red turning purple, 2-3 seeds.

    Habitat and Distribution: Miconia pepericarpa occurs in Cerrado vegetation, from 550 to 1700m asl from São Paulo to Bahia and Goiás states.

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