Miconia carnea Cogn.

  • Family

    Melastomataceae (Magnoliophyta)

  • Scientific Name

    Miconia carnea 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: Syntype: Costa Rica, Lehmann XXXVIII (BR!)

    Description: Shrub or tree 2-5 m tall, the uppermost rounded-quadrate internodes, young vegetative buds, and inflorescence branchlets sparsely to moderately beset with a tardily deciduous scurfy puberulence. Leaves of a pair equal to somewhat unequal in length, blades 3-nerved, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 5.6-16 x 2.3-7.2 cm, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, base acute varying to obtuse or rounded, the margin typically entire sometimes varying to serrulate distally; petioles 0.9-3.3 cm long. Inflorescence a multiflowered panicle 6-11 cm long; flowers 5-merous on pedicels 0.5 mm long; the early deciduous bracteoles elliptic to narrowly obovate, 1.5-2 x 0.5-1 mm. Hypanthia sparsely scurfy puberulent; calyx tube 0.25 mm long, the calyx lobes ovate to ± semicircular, 0.5 x 1 mm; the exterior calyx teeth triangular, 0.25 mm long, shorter than the calyx lobes. Petals white sometimes flushed with pink but typically drying yellow, glabrous, obovate, 2-2.5 x 1-1.5 mm. Anthers essentially isomorphic, 1.5 mm long, deep pink, ± cuneate and 4-celled, widest apically at the ventrally inclined pore; connective elevated dorso-basally into a ridge or 2-sided wing and prolonged ventro-basally into a biauriculate appendage 0.2 mm long. Style glabrous, 4-6 mm long; stigma peltate; ovary 3-locular, seemingly completely inferior, apex glabrous and fluted just following anthesis. Mature berry and seeds unknown.

    Habitat and Distribution: Infrequent to locally common in primary and secondary cloud forest. 1300-2650 m. COSTA RICA (Almeda & Nakai 4806, CAS); PANAMA (Almeda et al. 6143, CAS). (Endemic).

    Notes: [Description based only on Mesoamerican specimens.]

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