Miconia schlimii

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Miconia schlimii
Miconia schlimii

Miconia schlimii

Systematics
Eurosiden II
Order : Myrtle-like (Myrtales)
Family : Black Mouth Family (Melastomataceae)
Tribe : Miconieae
Genre : Miconia
Type : Miconia schlimii
Scientific name
Miconia schlimii
Triana

Miconia schlimii is a plant from the family of melastomataceae (Melastomataceae). The tree is native to central and northern South America.

description

Miconia schlimii , Costa Rica

Miconia schlimii is a shrub or small tree that reaches a height of up to 8 meters. Young twigs, petioles, the veins of the underside of the leaves and the flower cups are moderately covered with red-brown, star-shaped, felty hair. The leaves, which are ciliate on the slightly to clearly corrugated edge, are lanceolate to elliptical-ovate, glabrous on the top and finely hairy on the underside, the veins fan out into three to five, rarely up to seven side ribs above the base of the leaves .

The little flowered inflorescences are 3 to 8 inches long. The five-fold, short-stalked flowers have white petals . The ovary is five-fold, the fruits have a diameter of 8 to 10 millimeters.

distribution

Miconia schlimii is native to Central and Northern South America from Guatemala and Belize to Northern Colombia and Venezuela. It is mostly found on light secondary locations.

Systematics and botanical history

Miconia schlimii was first described in 1872 by the Colombian botanist José Jerónimo Triana . In 1891 it was placed in the genus Acinodendron by Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze . In 1906 John Donnell Smith described a species of Conostegia dolichostylis from Costa Rica. Both names are now treated as synonyms of Miconia schlimii .

proof

  1. ↑ a b c Anton Weber, Werner Huber, Anton Weissenhofer, Nelson Zamora, Georg Zimmermann: An Introductory Field Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Golfo Dulce Rain Forests Costa Rica. In: Stapfia. Volume 78, Linz 2001, p. 332, ISSN  0252-192X / ISBN 3854740727 , PDF on ZOBODAT
  2. ↑ Entry on the name at IPNI, online
  3. ↑ Entry on the species in Melastomataceae.Net 2007–2010. A Site with Information on the Biodiversity of Melastomataceae , online , last accessed April 10, 2010
  4. ^ Entry on the name at IPNI, online , last accessed on April 10, 2010

Web links

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