Miconia loreyoides Triana
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Family
Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)
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Scientific Name
Miconia loreyoides Triana
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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: Syntype: Colombia, Triana 4028 (K!).
Description: Scandent or clambering hemiepiphytic shrub 1-3 m tall, the rounded-quadrate to terete uppermost cauline internodes, petioles, elevated primary leaf veins (on abaxial surface), inflorescence rachis, and hypanthia moderately to sparsely and ± deciduously covered with stellate hairs. Leaves of a pair equal to subequal in size, blades 5-nerved or if 5-plinerved then the innermost pair of primary veins diverging from the midvein 0.4-1 cm above the blade base, elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, 3.5-12.5 x 2.4-6.3 cm, apex acuminate to acute, base rounded to obtuse, the margin entire to remotely and inconspicuously crenulate, essentially glabrous at maturity on the abaxial and adaxial surfaces; petioles 0.4-1.8 cm long. Inflorescence a multiflowered panicle 5.5-14 cm long; flowers 4-5-merous on pedicels 2-3 mm long; the early deciduous oblong to narrowly obovate and somewhat cucullate bracteoles 1.25-2 x 0.5 mm. Hypanthium varying to nearly glabrous in some populations. Calyx tube 0.25 mm long, the calyx lobes 1 x 1.5-2 mm, bluntly triangular to rounded-triangular, the exterior calyx teeth bluntly subulate to callose-thickened, inconspicuous. Petals white, pale pink or pink-magenta, commonly reflexed at anthesis, densely papillose on both surfaces, broadly obovate to subrotund, 3-3.5 x 2.5 mm. Anthers isomorphic, yellow, 2-2.5 mm long, laterally compressed, the pore positioned on the dorsal-apical side; connective prolonged dorso-basally into a blunt rounded deflexed appendage 0.5 mm long. Style glandular-puberulent, 5-6 mm long; stigma peltate and 4-5-lobate; ovary 4-5-locular, completely inferior, apex conspicuously ribbed and deciduously glandular-puberulent with a collar 0.5 mm long surrounding a crateriform depression at the stylar scar. Berry blue-black when mature, 3-5 x 3-5 mm when dry. Seeds angulate-ovoid with a smooth testa, 0.5 mm long.
Habitat and Distribution: Locally common in rain forest and cloud forest. 400-1650 m. Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. COSTA RICA (Campos 98, CAS); PANAMA (Almeda et al. 6366, CAS).
Taxonomy and Systematics: Taxonomy and Systematics
Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]
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