Miconia lonchophylla Naudin
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Family
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
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Scientific Name
Miconia lonchophylla Naudin
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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: Isotype: Venezuela, Funck & Schlim 94 (BR!).
Description: Shrub or tree 1-6 m tall, the rounded-quadrate uppermost cauline internodes, elevated primary veins on abaxial foliar surfaces, inflorescence rachis, bracteoles and hypanthia moderately to densely and deciduously covered with appressed stellate-lepidote hairs. Leaves of a pair equal to somewhat unequal in size, blades 3-5-plinerved with the innermost pair of primary veins diverging from the midvein 0.2-0.7 cm above the blade base, oblong-elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 6.2-22.5 x 2.7-7 cm, apex acute to short-acuminate, base acute and sometimes decurrent on the petiole, the margin entire rarely varying to undulate, glabrous on the actual surface both abaxially and adaxially; petioles 0.5-2.3 cm long. Inflorescence a multiflowered panicle 6.5-13 cm long; flowers 5-merous and sessile, the early deciduous bracteoles subulate to narrowly triangular, 0.75 mm long and 0.25 mm wide at the base. Calyx tube forming a flange 0.5 mm long, the actual calyx lobes merely undulate or broadly triangular and then only 0.1-0.2 mm long; the exterior calyx teeth bluntly triangular, 0.5 mm long, barely exceeding the calyx lobes. Petals white, glabrous, obovate-oblong, 4-5.5 x 3 mm. Anthers alternately somewhat unequal in length, 2.5-3.5 mm or 2-2.5 mm long, white, oblong and incurved with a ventrally inclined pore; connective not prolonged dorsally but prolonged ventro-basally into a bilobed caudiform appendage 0.1-0.2 mm long. Style glabrous, 5.5-8 mm long; stigma truncate; ovary 3-locular, ½ inferior, apex glabrous, ± elevated into a low (0.1 mm long) collar surrounding the crateriform stylar scar; berry 4-6 x 4-6 mm when dry, turning pink and ultimately purple when ripe. Seeds triangular to triangular-ovoid with an angular to rounded convex face, the testa smooth, 1.5 mm long.
Habitat and Distribution: Locally common to uncommon in cloud forest. Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz), Colombia and Venezuela. MEXICO: Chiapas (Purpus 199, US); HONDURAS (Croat & Hannon 64249, CAS); COSTA RICA (Almeda & Anderson 5364, CAS); PANAMA (Almeda et al. 6101, CAS).
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]
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