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) inflorescence, persistent bracts and bracteoles, unlobed calyx that is truncate and flangelike, prominent subulate calyx teeth that exceed the calyx in length, 5-merous flowers, distally constricted anther filaments, and isometric stamens that lack appendages.
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above the blade base, the tertiary veins conspicuous, elevated and spaced
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apart at the wider portions of the abaxial surface of the blade, adaxially glabrous at maturity, abaxially essentially glabrous or glabrate on the actual surface but moderately to copiously beset with a brown stellulate-lepidote indumentum on primary and secondary veins. Inflorescence terminal, thyrsoid,
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long and exceeding the truncate calyx; torus minutely glandular-puberulent adaxially. Petals 3.54 ×
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, pink to pink-magenta, glabrous, elliptic-oblong, apically obtuse with a minute apical mucro. Stamens 10, isometric and isomorphic, forming a ring around the style at anthesis, filaments
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wide, pale yellow, linear oblong, the apex with a ± truncate or somewhat dorsally inclined terminal pore; connective slightly thickened but unappendaged. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 3/5 inferior, 5-locular, ± globose, apex conspicuously fluted, densely white-papillate. Style straight or somewhat declinate, glabrous,
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long, white; stigma capitellate. Mature berries and seeds not seen.
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE6FFFEFF72C381FEF7F801" bold="true" box="[136,257,1930,1952]" pageId="2" pageNumber="296">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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A. Habit. B. Inflorescence rachis (enlarged to show indumentum). C. Cauline internode. D. Representative leaf (abaxial surface). E. Flower in profile view. F. Petal (adaxial surface) G. Stamen (profile view showing distal filament constriction). H. Stamen (dorsal view). I. Hypanthium, truncate calyx, and exterior teeth (profile view). J. Style and stigma. K. Ovary in cross section. L. Bracteoles. M. Inflorescence bracts. Drawn from MO isotype.
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE7FFFFFF72C747FEF7FCFF" bold="true" box="[136,257,844,866]" pageId="3" pageNumber="297">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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.
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A. Field photograph showing habit and spreading long-pedunculate inflorescence. B. Field photograph showing close-up of inflorescence with open flowers and buds). Photographs of type collection by Irving Vergara-Pérez.
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE7FFFFFF72C385FF08F83D" bold="true" box="[136,254,1934,1956]" pageId="3" pageNumber="297">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Distribution of
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FF47C495FD66FF26" bold="true" box="[189,656,158,184]" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Distribution, habitat, and phenology:—</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FD6AC494FC4BFF26" box="[656,957,158,184]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Miconia amplipedunculata</emphasis>
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is presently known only from low elevations (below
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) in the Donoso district of coastal
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on the Caribbean slope of
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(
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). At its only known locality, where it is evidently uncommon,
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grows in or at the margins of mature secondary rainforest. The
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and only known collection was flowering in early November.
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FF47C525FEA1FED6" bold="true" box="[189,343,302,328]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Conservation</emphasis>
:—
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The Caribbean slope rainforest habitat where
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FC6DC524FB3CFED6" box="[919,1226,302,328]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Miconia amplipedunculata</emphasis>
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grows is not part of a protected area. Because the
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was the only collection available for this study we were unable to calculate area of occupancy and extent of occurrence for a recommended conservation assessment using
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guidelines and criteria (
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). The
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locality appears to be within the
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, a large-scale open-pit copper mine development in
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.
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concession consists of four zones amounting to 13,600 hectares (https://www.first-quantum.com).
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have no information on the exact occurrence of
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within this concession.
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the distribution of this species is better known we regard its conservation status as
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(
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.
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<subSubSection id="F7FF6566FFE0FFF8FF47C645FDC0FD2E" pageId="4" pageNumber="298" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FF47C645FE92FDF6" bold="true" box="[189,356,590,616]" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Etymology:—</emphasis>
The epithet for this species,
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<taxonomicName id="78E54D6EFFE0FFF8FD5CC645FC85FDF6" authorityName="Almeda &amp; O. Ortiz" authorityYear="2022" box="[678,883,590,616]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="4" pageNumber="298" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amplipedunculata">amplipedunculata</taxonomicName>
,
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is derived from the Latin word “amplus” (ample, large, abundant, or great). It highlights the unusually long inflorescence peduncle of this species which readily distinguishes it from all allied species.
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<subSubSection id="F7FF6566FFE0FFF8FF47C6B1FB0EF9AA" pageId="4" pageNumber="298" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FF47C6B1FEA7FD4A" bold="true" box="[189,337,698,724]" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Affinities:—</emphasis>
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is morphologically most similar to a group of species that includes
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FA77C6B0FF0EFD66" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. iteophylla</emphasis>
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,
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,
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FCB2C6D4FC35FD66" box="[840,963,734,760]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. ligulata</emphasis>
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), and
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FB21C6D4FABBFD66" box="[1243,1357,734,760]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. peltata</emphasis>
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. Like
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FEA7C708FDBAFC82" box="[349,588,770,796]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. amplipedunculata</emphasis>
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, most of these species are restricted to
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; only
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FB52C708FAD3FC82" box="[1192,1317,770,796]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. ligulata</emphasis>
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has a range that extends from
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to
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and
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(
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,
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;
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Almeda
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). All of these species share a brown amorphous stellulate-lepidote indumentum, oblong petals, unappendaged anther connectives, filaments that are constricted distally, a torus that is puberulent adaxially, persistent bracts and bracteoles, and 5-locular ovaries.
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can be distinguished from all other species in this complex by its peltate, 57-plinerved leaves that are broadly rounded to subcordate at the base, an inflorescence that is divaricately branched at the initiating node, five welldefined triangular calyx lobes, and higher elevation (
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). Our new species is probably closest to
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which has wider (
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) leaf blades that are 57-nerved (vs. blades
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and 3-plinerved) and well-defined rounded-triangular calyx lobes (vs. an unlobed truncate calyx), and grows at higher elevations (
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vs.
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).
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FF72C04CFEAAFBFE" box="[136,348,1094,1120]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Miconia iteophylla</emphasis>
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also has 3-plinerved leaves with the inner pair of secondary veins diverging from the median nerve in opposite or subalternate fashion like
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but its leaves are narrowly elliptic and smaller (4.59 ×
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), its inflorescence is a terminal panicle that branches
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above the node initiating the inflorescence, its calyx consists of five depressed triangular undulations, its petals are white, and it grows at somewhat higher elevations (
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).
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is only superficially similar to
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FBCDC0DCFB42FB6E" box="[1079,1204,1238,1264]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. ligulata</emphasis>
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, the most widespread species among this group of congeners; the latter grows in habitats spanning the elevational range of all closely related species in this group (
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).
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FE05C114FD4CFAA6" box="[511,698,1310,1336]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Miconia ligulata</emphasis>
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has leaf blades of comparable size to
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FBA7C114FABDFAA6" box="[1117,1355,1310,1336]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. amplipedunculata</emphasis>
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but they are 5-plinerved, attenuate to long-acuminate apically with a base that is gradually tapering and decurrent on the petiole, its inflorescence branches at the initiating node, its calyx consists of five depressed triangular lobes, and its petals are white. All of the close relatives of
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FDC2C180FCDEFA3A" box="[568,808,1418,1444]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. amplipedunculata</emphasis>
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were included by
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in his enlarged concept of the genus
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FEE1C1A4FE6DFA57" box="[283,411,1455,1481]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Conostegia</emphasis>
D.
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, 316). A cladogram of a molecular phylogenetic hypothesis in Kriebels monograph (
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) shows three of the four sampled species (
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FCBBC1D8FC4AFA72" box="[833,956,1490,1516]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. jefensis</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FC31C1D8FBBEFA72" box="[971,1096,1490,1516]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. ligulata</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FB7DC1D8FB0AFA72" box="[1159,1276,1490,1516]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">M. peltata</emphasis>
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) grouping with
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FF72C1FDFE73F98E" box="[136,389,1526,1552]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Clidemia trichosantha</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FD56C1FCFC9DF98E" box="[684,875,1526,1552]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Miconia brenesii</emphasis>
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in his sect.
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FB15C1FDFA8EF98E" box="[1263,1400,1526,1552]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Geniculatae</emphasis>
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. We here interpret all of these species to be part of a greatly expanded
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<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FC92C210FC33F9AA" box="[872,965,1563,1588]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">Miconia</emphasis>
(
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Michelangeli
<emphasis id="8D91EAFFFFE0FFF8FB8BC210FB54F9AA" box="[1137,1186,1562,1588]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="298">et al</emphasis>
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)
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.
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