Miconia doniana Naudin

  • Family

    Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)

  • Scientific Name

    Miconia doniana Naudin

  • Primary Citation

    Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. 16: 244. 1850

  • 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: Syntype: Peru, Poeppig 1213 (P!).

    Description: Shrubs or small trees 2-7 m tall, the young branchlets, petioles, inflorescences, and hypanthia moderately to densely but sometimes deciduously stellulate-puberulent. Leaves 5(-7)-nerved, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 10-27.5 X 7-16 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially deciduously stellulate-furfuraceous on the elevated primary veins but essentially glabrous on the actual surface, apex caudate-acuminate with a drip tip 1-4(-7) cm long, base obtuse to broadly rounded, the margin entire; petioles 3-7 cm long. Panicle 5-17 cm long; flowers 5-merous on pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm long, the early deciduous bracteoles narrowly-oblong, 1-1.5 X 0.25 mm. Calyx tube 0.5 mm long, the ovate apiculate lobes 0.5-1 mm long, exterior teeth inconspicuous, adnate to and barely projecting beyond the lobes. Petals obovate-oblong, 4-5(-6) X 3-3.5 mm, stellulate-puberulent abaxially and copiously papillate adaxially. Anthers somewhat unequal in size, linear-oblong to linear-subulate, alternately 5 and 6 mm long, magenta, the pore ventrally inclined; connective thickened dorsally and often beset with conspicuous glands, dilated dorso-basally into a bluntly bilobed or trilobed semicircular appendage. Style moderately glandular-puberulent, 11-12 mm long; stigma capitate; ovary 3-locular, 1/3-1/4 inferior, apex distended into a bowl-like papillate-puberulent collar; berry 5-7 X 5-7 mm, purple at maturity. Seeds smooth, pyramidate and angulate, 0.5-0.7 mm long.

    Habitat and Distribution: Local and uncommon, rain forest, cloud forest, stream margins. 30-1500 m. Venezuela and eastern Peru. GUATEMALA (Contreras 4531, CAS); HONDURAS (Liesner 26407, CAS); NICARAGUA (Moreno 23941, CAS); COSTA RICA (Almeda & Nakai 3954, CAS); PANAMA (Herrera et al. 1712, CAS).

    Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]

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