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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.33.6766" ID-PMC="PMC3921560" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-33-61" ID-Pensoft-UUID="FB1543191D53137E0A7E6062FFE8642F" ID-PubMed="24526849" ID-Zenodo-Dep="576196" ModsDocID="1314-2003-33-61" checkinTime="1451251779245" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Majure, Lucas C., Becquer, Eldis R. &amp; Judd, Walter S." docDate="2014" docId="C393581862DA7979E9597F962C4CB905" docLanguage="en" docName="PhytoKeys 33: 61-75" docOrigin="PhytoKeys 33" docPubDate="2014-01-27" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.33.6766" docTitle="Miconia hirtistyla Majure &amp; Judd 2014, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docVersion="6" id="FB1543191D53137E0A7E6062FFE8642F" lastPageNumber="73" masterDocId="FB1543191D53137E0A7E6062FFE8642F" masterDocTitle="Miconia bullotricha and M. hirtistyla, two new species of Miconia sect. Lima (Miconieae, Melastomataceae) from eastern Cuba" masterLastPageNumber="75" masterPageNumber="61" pageNumber="68" updateTime="1668141034179" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Miconia bullotricha and M. hirtistyla, two new species of Miconia sect. Lima (Miconieae, Melastomataceae) from eastern Cuba</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Majure, Lucas C.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 - 8525 U. S. A. &amp; Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 - 0575 U. S. A.</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Becquer, Eldis R.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Jardin Botanico Nacional, Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Judd, Walter S.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 - 8525 U. S. A. &amp; Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 - 0575 U. S. A.</mods:affiliation>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="68">
<taxonomicName LSID="C3935818-62DA-7979-E959-7F962C4CB905" authority="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Miconia hirtistyla" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="68" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla" status="sp. nov.">Miconia hirtistyla Majure &amp; Judd</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="7" pageNumber="68">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Distribution of Miconia hirtistyla in Granma and Santiago de Cuba provinces (closed circles) and Miconia bullotricha in Guantanamo Province (open circles)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10542" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Figs 2</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Illustration of Miconia hirtistyla. A habit (Ekman 14617) B leaf abaxial surface (Leon LS- 10923) C bracteole (Leon LS- 10923) D petal (Ekman 14617) E stamen (Ekman 14617) F style (Ekman 14617)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10543" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">, 3</figureCitation>
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="68" type="diagnosis.">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="68">
Species differing from
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="68" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="jashaferi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having erect inflorescences, clawed petals, apically oriented anther pores and pubescent styles. Species differing from
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="68" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cubacinerea">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having pubescent styles, clawed petals, and shorter calyx teeth (4.5-4.6 mm in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="68" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
vs. 5.7-6.2 mm in
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="68" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cubacinerea">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="68" type="type.">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Type.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="68">
CUBA. Santiago de Cuba: Southern Oriente and Pico Turquino, high [Sierra] Maestra, July 1922,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">
Fre.
<normalizedToken originalValue="León">Leon</normalizedToken>
LS-10923
</emphasis>
(holotype: NY!; isotype: GH!, HAC!;
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Illustration of Miconia hirtistyla. A habit (Ekman 14617) B leaf abaxial surface (Leon LS- 10923) C bracteole (Leon LS- 10923) D petal (Ekman 14617) E stamen (Ekman 14617) F style (Ekman 14617)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10543" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="70" pageId="7" pageNumber="68" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="70" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">
Evergreen shrub (height unknown); stems round in cross section, not ridged, the internodes 0.4-3.3 cm long, stem indumentum of bulla-based hairs to 1.6 mm long, these shaggy, spreading to slightly descending; nodal line absent. Leaves opposite, decussate, ovate to elliptic, not falcate, 1.6-8.2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.4-3.9 cm, slightly to strongly anisophyllous (larger leaves at a node to twice as large as the smaller leaf), dark brown when dried, apex broadly acute, base broadly acute to rounded, margin dentate, dentations obscure, each covered in one large bulla-based hair, venation acrodromous, 7 veined, the midvein and 3 pairs of arching secondary veins, secondary veins mostly basal, the innermost pair, suprabasal, produced 3-9 mm from leaf base, positioned 2.5-11 mm in from margin at widest point of blade, tertiary veins percurrent,
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
perpendicular to midvein, 1.5-4.1 mm apart at midleaf, intertertiary veins present, tertiary veins often joined by quaternary veins; adaxial leaf surface with primary, secondary and tertiary veins impressed, quaternary veins obscure, abaxial surface with all veins conspicuously raised; adaxial leaf surface covered in well developed but narrow bulla-based hairs mostly but not entirely covering the leaf areoles, widest hair bases to 0.8 mm, apices of bulla-based
<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="69" start="start">hairs</pageBreakToken>
mostly erect to recurved, sessile, glandular, hairs produced along the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary veins between the bulla-based hairs; abaxial leaf surface covered in bulla-based hairs, these mostly erect with undulate apices, those along the
<pageBreakToken pageId="9" pageNumber="70" start="start">primary</pageBreakToken>
, secondary, and tertiary veins spreading and larger than hairs produced throughout the lamina, lamina appearing as a series of pits from depressions of the bulla-based hairs produced from the upper leaf surface (i.e., foveolate), sessile, black, glandular hairs produced along all major and minor veins, domatia of tufts of multicellular, linear hairs abundant in axils of primary and secondary veins, as well as the axils of the primary and secondary with tertiary veins; petioles 0.4-1.8 cm long, covered in spreading, bulla-based hairs on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal, cymose, 2-5 flowered, 1.3-2.4
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1.2-3.8 cm, the flowers mostly produced in glomerulate clusters, the peduncle 0.6-1.3 cm long, proximal inflorescence branches 0.8-1.1 mm long, pedicels absent; bracts ovate to elliptic, foliaceous, 5-17 mm long; bracteoles foliaceous, elliptic, 2.8-4.3
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.7-2.1 mm, covered in bulla-based hairs marginally and abaxially and glabrous abaxially or with filiform hairs towards the base. Flowers perfect, actinomorphic, 6-merous, sessile. Hypanthium 2.6-3.2 mm long, short-oblong to globose, unlobed, slightly constricted below the torus, free portion of the hypanthium 1-1.4 mm long, abaxial surface covered in bulla-based hairs to 2.3 mm long, and occasional, sessile, glandular hairs near the bases of the bulla-based hairs; adaxial surface (i.e., free portion) covered in small, bulla-based hairs; calyx teeth 6, 4.5-4.6
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.2-0.4 mm, ascending or spreading, covered in bulla-based hairs; calyx lobes 6,
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
triangular, apices acute, 1-1.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1-1.5 mm, covered in bulla-based hairs abaxially and gland-headed, filiform hairs adaxially; calyx tube not tearing, 0.3-0.5 mm long with bulla-based hairs abaxially and sessile, glandular hairs, as well as filiform, gland-headed hairs adaxially and along the apex of the tube; petals 6, most likely white, elliptic to obovate, 5.7-6.6
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
2.7-3.1 mm, with an acuminate apex, only slightly to conspicuously clawed, with one slightly bulla-based hair produced abaxially, subapically, or in some cases, marginally, to 0.1 mm long; stamens 12; filaments 3.8-4.1 mm long, glabrous, anthers 2.2-2.6 mm long, ovate, with one apically oriented pore, anther thecae 2-2.5 mm long, anthers without a dorso-basal appendage; style 3.8-4.4 mm long, pubescent (i.e., with scattered, slightly bulla-based hairs), oblong to only slightly dilated in the middle, collar absent, style subtended by multicellular, linear to elongate-triangular (needle-like) hairs, which grade into the surrounding bulla-based hairs of the ovary apex, stigma punctate; ovary 1.2-2.8
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1.5-2.5 mm, apex convex, with bulla-based hairs, placentation axile, placenta apparently not deeply intruded, 3-locular; berries not seen, mature seeds not seen.
</paragraph>
<caption httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10543" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" start="Figure 3" startId="F3">
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Figure 3.</emphasis>
Illustration of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">A</emphasis>
habit (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Ekman 14617</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">B</emphasis>
leaf abaxial surface (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">
<normalizedToken originalValue="León">Leon</normalizedToken>
LS-10923
</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">C</emphasis>
bracteole (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">
<normalizedToken originalValue="León">Leon</normalizedToken>
LS-10923
</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">D</emphasis>
petal (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Ekman 14617</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">E</emphasis>
stamen (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Ekman 14617</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">F</emphasis>
style (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Ekman 14617</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="70" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is only known from the western Sierra Maestra, Cuba (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Distribution of Miconia hirtistyla in Granma and Santiago de Cuba provinces (closed circles) and Miconia bullotricha in Guantanamo Province (open circles)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10542" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
), where it occurs in montane rainforest, pine forest and elfin forest on rocky soils at elevations of 700-1800 m. Associated melastomes include
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="argentimuricata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia argentimuricata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="norlindii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia norlindii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ekman" authorityYear="1923" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="nystroemii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia nystroemii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Urb.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="70" type="phenology.">
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was collected in bud, at anthesis, and in immature fruit in March and July.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="70" type="etymology.">
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">
The specific epithet &quot;
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">hirtistyla</emphasis>
&quot; refers to the pubescent style of this species (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Illustration of Miconia hirtistyla. A habit (Ekman 14617) B leaf abaxial surface (Leon LS- 10923) C bracteole (Leon LS- 10923) D petal (Ekman 14617) E stamen (Ekman 14617) F style (Ekman 14617)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10543" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
). Within the
<taxonomicName class="Bivalvia" family="Limidae" genus="Lima" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Limida" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Lima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
clade,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the only species that demonstrates this character.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="10" lastPageNumber="71" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" type="conservation status.">
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="10" lastPageNumber="71" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="70" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is mostly known from the very well protected forests of Turquino National Park. Although the species has not been collected
<pageBreakToken pageId="10" pageNumber="71" start="start">since</pageBreakToken>
1978, and we know nothing regarding its reproductive biology or population numbers, it is most likely not threatened by anthropogenic disturbance and habitat loss, at least in the areas immediately surrounding the park. Fieldwork will be necessary to appropriately assess the conservation status of this species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="11" pageNumber="72" type="specimens examined.">
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="72">
<pageBreakToken pageId="11" pageNumber="72" start="start">Specimens</pageBreakToken>
examined.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="72">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Cuba.</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Granma:</emphasis>
A lo largo del camino de Minas del Frio a Montpie, 23 Apr 1978,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">J. Bisse et al. HFC-37347</emphasis>
(HAJB); Valle del arroyo Escondido, 700-1000 msm, 26 Apr 1978,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">J. Bisse et al. HFC-37628</emphasis>
(HAJB);
<normalizedToken originalValue="Bartolomé">Bartolome</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Masó">Maso</normalizedToken>
. Estribo del Pico Turquino, 20 Apr 1979,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">J. Bisse et al. HFC-40517</emphasis>
(HAJB); Manguito, pinares de la loma La Botella, 1200-1400 msm, 22 Mar 1970,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">H. Lippold HFC-16283</emphasis>
(HAJB).
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Santiago de Cuba:</emphasis>
Oriente, Pico Turquino, 12-26 Jul 1936,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">
J.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Acuña">Acuna</normalizedToken>
SV-10189
</emphasis>
(HAC); Oriente, Sierra Maestra, Cima del Pico Turquino, 10 July 1936,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">
J.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Acuña">Acuna</normalizedToken>
SV-22705
</emphasis>
(HAC); Oriente, Sierra Maestra, steep rocks of Loma Regino, 25 Jul 1922,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">E.L. Ekman 14617</emphasis>
(S); southern Oriente and Pico Turquino, high [Sierra] Maestra, Jul 1922,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">
Fre.
<normalizedToken originalValue="León">Leon</normalizedToken>
LS-10927
</emphasis>
(GH, NY).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="12" lastPageNumber="73" pageId="11" pageNumber="72" type="discussion.">
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="12" lastPageNumber="73" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Majure &amp; Judd" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="11" pageNumber="72" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hirtistyla">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the only species in the
<taxonomicName class="Bivalvia" family="Limidae" genus="Lima" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Limida" pageId="11" pageNumber="72" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Lima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
clade known to possess pubescent styles and it is one of two species that exhibits clawed petals (e.g.,
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="11" pageNumber="72" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="phrynosomaderma">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia phrynosomaderma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Majure &amp; Judd;
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, a putatively distantly related species). Both characters are likely autapomorphies of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, because morphology suggests that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia phrynosomaderma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is more closely related to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia limoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and relatives (e.g., well-developed bulla-based hairs on leaf adaxial surface, open, expanded, cymose inflorescences, presence of anther dorso-basal appendages; see Majure and Judd 2013).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most likely closely related to
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="11" pageNumber="72" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="jashaferi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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), with which it had been confused, as well as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia tentaculicapitata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. All of these species have condensed inflorescences, leaf-like bracts and bracteoles, broad, oblong to obovate petals, a crown of long, needle-like hairs on the ovary apex and surrounding the style or merely needle-like hairs produced throughout the ovary apex, long, filiform, eglandular or gland-headed hairs along the calyx lobe adaxial surface and apex of calyx tube, long calyx teeth, as well as
<normalizedToken originalValue="“shallowly”">&quot;shallowly&quot;</normalizedToken>
intruded placenta (versus deeply intruded placenta as in most other species of the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Lima</emphasis>
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clade). All four species also lack a dorso-basal anther appendage, the presence of which otherwise is a common feature in the clade (
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from all three of these species by the presence of pubescent styles and clawed petals and from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by hypanthium shape (short oblong to globose in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
vs. narrowly oblong to cylindrical in the latter two species). The species also differs from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in inflorescence structure (erect vs. pendant inflorescences;
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Illustration of Miconia hirtistyla. A habit (Ekman 14617) B leaf abaxial surface (Leon LS- 10923) C bracteole (Leon LS- 10923) D petal (Ekman 14617) E stamen (Ekman 14617) F style (Ekman 14617)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10543" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Figs 3</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Illustration of Miconia jashaferi. A habit (Ekman 3849) B petal (Alain 871) C stamen (Alain 871) D style (Alain 871) E immature fruit longitudinal section (Alain 871), seed (Acuna SV- 13275)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10544" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">, 4</figureCitation>
), leaf shape (elliptic to ovate with broadly to narrowly acute apices rather than mostly ovate with acuminate apices), anther size (2.2-2.6 mm long in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
vs. 1.8-2 mm long in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
;
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Illustration of Miconia hirtistyla. A habit (Ekman 14617) B leaf abaxial surface (Leon LS- 10923) C bracteole (Leon LS- 10923) D petal (Ekman 14617) E stamen (Ekman 14617) F style (Ekman 14617)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10543" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Figs 3</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Illustration of Miconia jashaferi. A habit (Ekman 3849) B petal (Alain 871) C stamen (Alain 871) D style (Alain 871) E immature fruit longitudinal section (Alain 871), seed (Acuna SV- 13275)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10544" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">, 4</figureCitation>
) and shape (ovate with anther thecae continuous with sterile portion of anther vs. elliptic with anther thecae discontinuous with sterile portion of anther;
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Illustration of Miconia jashaferi. A habit (Ekman 3849) B petal (Alain 871) C stamen (Alain 871) D style (Alain 871) E immature fruit longitudinal section (Alain 871), seed (Acuna SV- 13275)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10544" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">, 4</figureCitation>
), as well as having apically oriented anther pores instead of dorsally oriented pores.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the pubescence of the abaxial leaf surface, in that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a clearly visible epidermis as a result of a sparser indumentum, while the epidermis of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is mostly concealed by dense bulla-based hairs. Likewise, the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary veins of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are densely clothed in spreading bulla-based hairs, however, in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the veins are easily seen, as the bulla-based hairs are less dense. The abaxial leaf surface of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also is densely covered in sessile, glandular hairs, while that of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="72">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has sparse,
<pageBreakToken pageId="12" pageNumber="73" start="start">glandular</pageBreakToken>
hairs. The lamina of the abaxial leaf surface of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is conspicuously, deeply pitted (as a result of the bulla-based hairs on the upper leaf surface to 0.5 mm deep), while that of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is not deeply pitted (i.e., the pits are only superficial to &lt;0.1 mm deep). The two species also differ in calyx teeth length (4.5-4.6 mm in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
vs. 5.7-6.2 mm in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia cubacinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and by the lack of clavate-dendritic hairs on the leaf adaxial surface and calyx teeth in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Figure 4.</emphasis>
Illustration of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">A</emphasis>
habit (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Ekman 3849</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">B</emphasis>
petal (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Alain 871</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">C</emphasis>
stamen (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Alain 871</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">D</emphasis>
style (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Alain 871</emphasis>
)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">E</emphasis>
immature fruit longitudinal section (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Alain 871</emphasis>
), seed (
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SV-13275
</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="73">
Lastly,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia tentaculicapitata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the less well-developed bulla-based hairs on the leaf adaxial surface, spreading to descending stem hairs, and lack of clavate-dendritic hairs on the leaf adaxial surface, as opposed to the well developed bulla-based hairs covering the leaf adaxial surface areoles, the ascending-appressed stem hairs, and presence of clavate-dendritic hairs on the leaf adaxial surface of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia tentaculicapitata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="73">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the less phenetically similar,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia tentaculicapitata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, are found in the western Sierra Maestra, while those species that are more phenetically similar to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, i.e.,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia cubacinera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, are found in northeastern Cuba in the Sierra de Baracoa and Sierra de Moa regions;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia jashaferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also is found in the southern part of Sierra de Cristal.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="73">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="73">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most likely a cladospecies (
<bibRefCitation author="Donoghue, MJ" journalOrPublisher="The Bryologist" pageId="12" pageNumber="73" pagination="172 - 181" publicationUrl="10.2307/3243026" refId="B5" refString="Donoghue, MJ, 1985. A critique of the biological species concept and recommendations for a phylogenetic alternative. The Bryologist 88: 172 - 181, 10.2307/3243026" title="A critique of the biological species concept and recommendations for a phylogenetic alternative." url="10.2307/3243026" volume="88" year="1985">Donoghue 1985</bibRefCitation>
), as indicated by the putative autapomorphies of pubescent styles and clawed petals. The species also adheres to the morphological/phenetic species (
<bibRefCitation author="Judd, WS" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany Monographs" pageId="12" pageNumber="73" pagination="1 - 235" refId="B7" refString="Judd, WS, 2007. Revision of Miconia sect. Chaenopleura (Miconieae, Melastomataceae) in the Greater Antilles. Systematic Botany Monographs 81: 1 - 235" title="Revision of Miconia sect. Chaenopleura (Miconieae, Melastomataceae) in the Greater Antilles." volume="81" year="2007">Judd 2007</bibRefCitation>
) and diagnostic species concepts (
<bibRefCitation author="Wheeler, QD" editor="Wheeler, QD" journalOrPublisher="Columbia University Press, New York" pageId="12" pageNumber="73" pagination="55 - 69" refId="B23" refString="Wheeler, QD, Platnick, NI, 2000. The phylogenetic species concept (sensu Wheeler and Platnick). In: Wheeler, QD, Meier, R, Eds., Species concepts and phylogenetic theory: a debate. Columbia University Press, New York: 55 - 69" title="The phylogenetic species concept (sensu Wheeler and Platnick)." volumeTitle="Species concepts and phylogenetic theory: a debate." year="2000">Wheeler and Platnick 2000</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</subSection>
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