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Type: Article
Published: 2015-07-15
Page range: 54–60
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Miconia macuxi (Miconieae, Melastomataceae): a new species from the Amazonian white sand vegetation

Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Postal Code 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Postal Code 476, 88040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Postal Code 19031, 81531-970, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Brazil campina campinarana Venezuela Eudicots

Abstract

Miconia macuxi is described from the states of Roraima and Amazonas, in northern Brazil, and Atabapo and Amazonas, in southern Venezuela. It occurs in white sand vegetation, and can be recognized by the strongly discolorous leaves with dense stellate trichomes on their abaxial surfaces, secund inflorescences, petal margins with glandular-stipitate trichomes, and white stamens, the antepetalous with the connective with two ventral lobes and a dorsal tooth.