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 3 237 246 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).