Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru
Author
Paredes-Burneo, Diego
Laboratorio de Florística, Departamento de Dicotiledóneas, Museo de Historia Natural UNMSM, Lima, Perú
Author
Michelangeli, Fabián A.
Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA
Author
Abstract, Asunción Cano
text
Phytotaxa
2018
2018-05-15
349
3
237
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.349.3.4
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.349.3.4
1179-3163
13709287
Brachyotum jamesonii
Triana
(1871: 49)
.
Fig. 2C
.
Small shrub
1–1.5 m
. Young stems, leaf blades and hypanthium with smooth hairs. Blades elliptic and flowers 4- merous; in Peruvian specimens, each flower subtended by two pairs of bracteoles. Petals purple.
Distribution in
Peru
:—Paramos, in shrublands around lakes, between 3500 and
3700 m
.
Specimens examined:—
PERU
.
Piura
. Ayabaca: Ayabaca, comunidad Samanga, sector Espíndola. Laguna Prieta,
3504 m
, 17M 671150 9475796,
23 October 2015
,
Diego F.Paredes 505
(USM). Comunidad Samanga, sector Espíndola. Laguna Prieta,
3494 m
, 17M 670695 9476116,
23 October 2015
,
Diego F. Paredes 508
(NY, USM). Huancabamba: Cordillére de Huancabamba. Las Huaringas.Au-dessous de la Laguna Negra,
3700 m
,
29 nov 1961
,
Claudine Friedberg 819
(
US
, USM).