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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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<taxonomicName LSID="72CA4D2E-1538-55AE-ACBE-56AC70A2D1F8" authority="Bécquer &amp; Majure" authorityName="Becquer &amp; Majure" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Miconia bullotricha" order="Myrtales" pageId="3" pageNumber="64" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bullotricha" status="sp. nov.">
Miconia bullotricha 
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&amp; Majure
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Illustration of Miconia bullotricha. A habit B close-up of leaf adaxial surface C immature stamen D style E fruit longitudinal section F seed (all from Bisse et al. HFC- 49930)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/10541" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Figs 1</figureCitation>
<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="3" pageNumber="64">, 2</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Species differing from 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
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in its stem indumentum generally with apices attenuate and strongly recurved upwards, (vs. more frequently granulate stem indumentum with apices truncate) more frequently ovate leaf shape (vs. mostly elliptic leaves), innermost pair of secondary veins produced 2-6 mm from leaf base (vs. 0.8-25 mm from leaf base), erect bulla-based hairs on lamina and tertiary veins of leaf abaxial surface (vs. mostly spreading to appressed bulla-based hairs), entire inflorescences pendant (vs. mostly erect inflorescences except for sometimes pendant basal inflorescence branches), globose floral buds (vs. quadrangular floral buds), and calyx teeth length (1.75-2.2 vs. 0.4-0.8 mm).
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Type.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="64">
CUBA. 
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: Palenque. Bernardo. Sierra del Frijol, Loma Bernardo, 800-900 m, 21 May 1983, 
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Bisse J., Beurton C., Dietrich H., 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Gutiérrez">Gutierrez</normalizedToken>
J., Lepper L., Dolmus R., 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Köhler">Koehler</normalizedToken>
E., Rankin R., Arias I. HFC-49930
</emphasis>
(holotype: HAJB!; isotypes: B 100362845!, HAJB!, JE!, NY!; 
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Figure 1.</emphasis>
Illustration of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
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. 
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habit 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">B</emphasis>
close-up of leaf adaxial surface 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">C</emphasis>
immature stamen 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">D</emphasis>
style 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">E</emphasis>
fruit longitudinal section 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">F</emphasis>
seed (all from 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Bisse et al. HFC-49930</emphasis>
).
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="64">Description.</paragraph>
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Evergreen shrub (height unknown); stems round in cross section, not ridged, the internodes 1.1-2.4 cm long; stems densely covered in bulla-based hairs with strongly to narrowly dilated bases, to 0.3 mm long, the hairs spreading to descending with apices recurved upwards, young stem hairs often dark purple in color; nodal line present, inconspicuous. Leaves opposite, decussate, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, often slightly falcate, 4.2-6 
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
1-2.2 cm, often slightly anisophyllous, yellowish when dried; apex narrowly acute; base rounded to broadly cuneate or abruptly cuneate; margin revolute, dentate, the dentations obscure, each covered in one large, bulla-based hair, venation acrodromous, 3 (-5) veined, 1 primary vein and 1 (rarely 2) pairs of suprabasal secondary veins, often asymmetrical at union with midvein, produced 2-6 mm from the leaf base, positioned 0.7-3 mm in from margin at widest part of blade, the tertiary veins percurrent, 
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
perpendicular to midvein, 2-3 mm apart at mid-leaf, intertertiary veins present, often joined by quaternary veins; adaxial leaf surface with primary and secondary veins impressed, tertiary veins flat to slightly impressed, remaining veins flat, abaxial surface with primary, secondary and tertiary veins raised, the higher order veins 
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
flat to slightly raised (i.e., clearly visible to more or less obscure); adaxial leaf surface completely covered in erect bulla-based hairs, these fully expanded at the base, thus the lamina obscured, widest hair bases to 1.5 mm wide, hair apices acute to truncate, sometimes slightly recurved toward the leaf margin, sessile, glandular hairs occurring between the bases of bulla-based hairs; abaxial leaf surface nearly completely covered with bulla-based hairs with strongly to narrowly dilated bases, the lamina areoles not completely filled, the hairs along the epidermis erect with apices recurved or not, veins completely covered by spreading to 
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hairs mostly with narrowly dilated bases and recurved apices, sessile, glandular hairs occurring throughout the lamina, as well as along veins; domatia inconspicuous, of multicellular, tufts of linear hairs present in the axils of the primary and secondary, as well as primary and tertiary veins; petiole 5-8 mm long, covered in spreading bulla-based hairs, those of the adaxial surface slightly longer and narrower than those of the abaxial surface and recurved towards to the leaf blade. Inflorescences terminal, well-developed to reduced cymes of 3-13 flowers, 2-3.5 
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1.8-3.4 cm, the flowers produced in 3-7 flowered 
<pageBreakToken pageId="5" pageNumber="66" start="start">dichasia</pageBreakToken>
, the peduncle 0.7-1.4 cm long, usually conspicuously reflexed at base, thus the entire inflorescence pendant, the proximal inflorescence branches 0.5-1 cm long; bracts oblong to narrowly ovate, 1.1-2 mm long; bracteoles narrowly ovate, ca. 0.5-0.7 
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0.2-0.3 mm, glabrous or with small bulla-based hairs at base, bracteoles generally resembling one large, bulla-based hair. Flowers perfect, actinomorphic, 4-merous, with pedicels 0-1 mm long. Hypanthium ca. 1.6 
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2.8 mm, 
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
globose, slightly constricted below torus, abaxial surface covered in granulate, bulla-based hairs with dilated bases and attenuate to truncate apices, to 0.5 mm long, and sessile, glandular hairs, the free portion of hypanthium 0.5-0.7 mm long, adaxial surface longitudinally ridged and covered by bulla-based hairs; calyx teeth 1.75-2.2 
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0.5 mm, linear and terete, recurved upon maturation, covered in bulla-based hairs; calyx lobes 
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
triangular, apex acute, ca. 1 
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1.3 mm, with bulla-based hairs abaxially and sessile, glandular hairs produced adaxially; calyx tube not tearing, ca. 0.4 mm long, with bulla-based hairs abaxially, sessile, glandular hairs adaxially and clavate-dendritic hairs produced at the apex; petals 4, (i.e., only seen in bud), ovate to elliptic with acute apices, apices with one, slightly bulla-based hair produced subapically, hair to 0.5 mm long; stamens 8 (immature), filaments glabrous, anthers ovate, with a well-developed dorso-basal appendage and one apically-oriented pore (the pore position could be an artifact of level of maturity); style (immature) dilated in the middle, subtended by a short crown of multicellular hairs, these only slightly longer than the surrounding bulla-based hairs on the ovary apex; stigma punctate; ovary ca. 1.4 
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2.4 mm, apex flat, with bulla-based hairs, 4 locular, with axillary placentation, the placenta deeply intruded into locule; berries (immature) globose, ca. 3-3.4 
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3 mm; seeds (immature) 0.2-0.6 mm long, obpyramidal, testa smooth, light brown, raphe extending the length of the seed, dark brown.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
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is endemic to eastern Cuba (province of 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Guantánamo">Guantanamo</normalizedToken>
; 
<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="5" pageNumber="66">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
), where it occurs in semi-dry, montane and elfin forest on serpentine soils at elevations of 500-1000 m. Associated melastomes include 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Calycogonium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="5" pageNumber="66" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="grisebachii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Calycogonium grisebachii</emphasis>
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Triana, 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Urb" authorityYear="1923" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="5" pageNumber="66" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="baracoensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Miconia baracoensis</emphasis>
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Urb. and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Ossaea pauciflora</emphasis>
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(Naudin) Urb.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Figure 2.</emphasis>
Distribution of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Miconia hirtistyla</emphasis>
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in Granma and Santiago de Cuba provinces (closed circles) and 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Becquer &amp; Majure" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="5" pageNumber="66" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bullotricha">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Guantánamo">Guantanamo</normalizedToken>
Province (open circles).
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="66" type="phenology.">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Plants with buds and young fruits have been collected in May.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="66" type="etymology.">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
The specific epithet &quot; 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">bullotricha</emphasis>
&quot; refers to the well-developed bulla-based hairs on the adaxial leaf surface. Although 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">bulla</emphasis>
is Latin in origin, we base formation of our compound epithet on the Greek rules for connecting vowels. Thus, we use 
<normalizedToken originalValue="“o”">&quot;o&quot;</normalizedToken>
here instead of 
<normalizedToken originalValue="“i”">&quot;i&quot;</normalizedToken>
, as we find &quot; 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">bullotricha</emphasis>
&quot; to be more euphonious than &quot; 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">bullitricha</emphasis>
.&quot; The connecting vowel 
<normalizedToken originalValue="“o”">&quot;o&quot;</normalizedToken>
has had widespread usage in classical Latin based on the large influence of Greek (
<bibRefCitation author="Stearn, WT" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany" pageId="12" pageNumber="73" refId="B18" refString="Stearn, WT, 1966. Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary. David &amp; Charles Limited Brunel House, Newton Abbot." title="Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary. David &amp; Charles Limited Brunel House, Newton Abbot." year="1966">Stearn 1966</bibRefCitation>
).
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="66" type="conservation status.">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
We do not have extensive knowledge of population level numbers of individuals or the reproductive biology of this species, so the conservation status of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
cannot be critically evaluated at this time. More fieldwork is imperative to assess the status of this species. However, deforestation has occurred in the surrounding areas from where 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Becquer &amp; Majure" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="5" pageNumber="66" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bullotricha">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
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is known, and thus, the species most likely should be considered threatened by habitat loss and other anthropogenic disturbances.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="67" pageId="5" pageNumber="66" type="specimens examined.">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="67" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">Cuba.</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Guantánamo">Guantanamo</normalizedToken>
:
</emphasis>
Baracoa. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Imías">Imias</normalizedToken>
, Sierra de 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Imías">Imias</normalizedToken>
, loma Jubal (al sur de Los Lechugos), 900-1000 m, 19 Aug 1975, 
<emphasis italics="true" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="67" pageId="5" pageNumber="66">
A. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Álvarez">Alvarez</normalizedToken>
de Zayas &amp; al. 
<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="67" start="start">HFC-</pageBreakToken>
27626
</emphasis>
(B, HAC, HAJB, JE); Baracoa. Sierra de Purial, La Gurbia, 700 m, May 1968, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">J. Bisse &amp; L. Rojas HFC-8562</emphasis>
(HAJB); IBID, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">HFC-9389</emphasis>
(HAJB); Baracoa. falda suroeste de la loma del Mirador, 500 m, 9 Aug 1975, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">J. Bisse &amp; F. K. Meyer HFC-27230</emphasis>
(B, HAC, HAJB, JE); Yateras Palenque. Sierra del Frijol, cerca de Bernardo, 800 m, 17 May 1983, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">J. Bisse &amp; al. HFC-49721</emphasis>
(B, JE); IBID, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">HFC-49731</emphasis>
(HAJB).
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="68" pageId="6" pageNumber="67" type="discussion.">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="67">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
likely belongs to a subclade within the 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Lima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
clade that contains the phenetically similar, Cuban endemic, 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="6" pageNumber="67" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ottoschmidtii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as well as other members of the 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Miconia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtales" pageId="6" pageNumber="67" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="lima">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Miconia lima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
complex (
<bibRefCitation author="Majure, LC" journalOrPublisher="Phytotaxa" pageId="12" pageNumber="73" pagination="9 - 16" publicationUrl="10.11646/phytotaxa.131.1.2" refId="B15" refString="Majure, LC, Judd, WS, 2013b. Miconia paralimoides (Miconieae: Melastomataceae), a new species from the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Phytotaxa 131: 9 - 16, 10.11646/phytotaxa.131.1.2" title="Miconia paralimoides (Miconieae: Melastomataceae), a new species from the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic." url="10.11646/phytotaxa.131.1.2" volume="131" year="2013 b">Majure et al. 2013b</bibRefCitation>
, Majure et al. unpubl. data). These species are recognized by their very well developed bulla-based hairs on the upper leaf surface (which mostly cover the leaf areoles; 
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), as well as expanded, pyramidal inflorescences consisting of cymose clusters of flowers subtended by highly reduced bracts. The only exception to this is 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Miconia pedunculata</emphasis>
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Majure &amp; Judd of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic that has widely spaced bulla-based hairs on the adaxial leaf surface, which do not completely fill the leaf areoles, and flowers that are subtended by foliaceous bracts.
</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="68" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">
As mentioned above, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
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is phenetically most similar to 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
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. However, the two species can be easily distinguished by stem and leaf indumentum, where 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="67">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
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has the stem indumentum generally with apices attenuate and strongly recurved upwards, (as opposed to granulate with the apices 
<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="68" start="start">truncate</pageBreakToken>
or short attenuate in 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
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; although it should be noted that central and northern Cuban populations of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
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have a tendency towards stem hairs with longer, attenuate apices that may be recurved upwards), and erect bulla-based hairs throughout the lamina and along the tertiary veins on the leaf abaxial surface (while 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
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has spreading to appressed bulla-based hairs throughout the lamina and along the tertiary veins of the leaf abaxial surface). 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
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usually produces entirely pendant inflorescences (
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), in contrast to the erect inflorescences of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the rest of the members of the subclade (however, several species often produce pendant basal inflorescence branches, including 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and has longer calyx teeth than 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(1.75-2.2 vs. 0.4-0.8 mm). Also, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has globose floral buds, while 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia ottoschmidtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
exhibits quadrangular floral buds.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="68">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Miconia bullotricha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
adheres to the morphological/phenetic and diagnostic species concepts (
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, 
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), and considering the putative autapomorphy of entirely pendant inflorescences, is 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>
).
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