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Meriania sanguinea Wurdack 1967

  • 1. Laboratorio de Florística, Departamento de Dicotiledóneas, Museo de Historia Natural UNMSM, Lima, Perú
  • 2. Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA

Description

Meriania sanguinea Wurdack (1967: 4). Figs. 2F–2H.

Shrub 1.3– 4 m. Young branchlets rounded quadrangular, interpetiolar flaps present. Lamina cordate, above glabrous and slightly bullate, beneath setulous only on the veins.

Distribution in Peru:—In shrubby patches next to montane forests on eastern slopes, among 2100 and 3050 m.

Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, Cerro Chinguela; por encima de Chorro Blanco, 24 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva & Elluz Huamán 520 (USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, comunidad Campesina Segundo y Cajas, caserío Batán., 2357 m, 17M 681553 9435254, 27 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva & Elluz Huamán 550 (USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, carretera Sapalache – Cerro Chinguelas, 9.5 Km después de Sapalache, 3035 m, 5°8’23.6’’S 79°23’45.4’’W, 09 March 2016, F. A. Michelangeli, D. F. Paredes & M. Gavrutenko 2618 (NY, USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, Rosarios Alto, 2125 m, 02 ago 2004, José Campos, Oliverio Díaz, José Sembrera & Lizandro Bustamante 10243 (USM).

Notes

Published as part of Paredes-Burneo, Diego, Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Abstract, Asunción Cano, 2018, Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru, pp. 237-246 in Phytotaxa 349 (3) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.349.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13709287

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USM, NY
Event date
2004-08-02
Verbatim event date
2004-08-02/2016-03-09
Scientific name authorship
Wurdack
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Myrtales
Family
Melastomataceae
Genus
Meriania
Species
sanguinea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Meriania sanguinea Wurdack, 1967 sec. Paredes-Burneo, Michelangeli & Abstract, 2018

References

  • Wurdack, J. J. (1967) Plants collected in Ecuador by W. H. Camp. Melastomataceae. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Number 16: 1 - 45.