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Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-15
Page range: 237–246
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Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru

Laboratorio de Florística, Departamento de Dicotiledóneas, Museo de Historia Natural UNMSM, Lima, Perú
Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA
Laboratorio de Florística, Departamento de Dicotiledóneas, Museo de Historia Natural UNMSM, Lima, Perú Instituto de Investigación Antonio Raimondi, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, UNMSM, Lima, Perú
Melastomataceae Huancabamba deflection Giron-Paute valley Andean forests paramo jalca Peru Eudicots

Abstract

We present a distribution extension for 12 species of Melastomataceae: all of them consisting in new reports for Peru. These belong to Axinaea (one species), Brachyotum (one species), Meriania (two species), and Miconia (eight species), occurring both in western and eastern-slopes forests, as well as in paramo and jalca. Nine of them have been previously reported as endemics to Ecuador. Only two species occur both north and south of Huancabamba deflection and seven are restricted to the Andes between the Girón-Paute valley in southern Ecuador and north of the Huancabamba deflection—the core of the already identified Huancabamba region.