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Issue: Vol. 662 No. 3: 13 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.662.3.3
Page range: 239-250
Abstract views: 169
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A new species of Meriania (Melastomataceae: Merianieae) from southeastern Ecuador

Grupo de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Salud (BIOMAS), Ingeniería en Agroindustria, Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de Las Américas, Vía a Nayón, Quito 170124, Ecuador
Grupo de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Salud (BIOMAS), Ingeniería en Agroindustria, Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de Las Américas, Vía a Nayón, Quito 170124, Ecuador
Amichi Lounge, vía Gualaquiza - San Juan Bosco, E45 s/n., Morona Santiago, Ecuador
Departamento de Orquideología, Centro de Investigación en Biología Tropical y Conservación - CINBIOTYC, Cal. Nestor Martos Mza. e Lote. 16 A.H. Almirante Miguel Grau II, Piura, Peru, Departamento de Gimnospermas y Monocotiledóneas, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Av. Arenales 1256, Jesús María, Lima, Peru, Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson: Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, 170510, Pichincha, Ecuador
Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson: Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, 170510, Pichincha, Ecuador, Jungle Dave’s Science Foundation, San Juan Bosco, Ecuador, Herbario HUTPL, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto s/n 11-01-608, Loja, Ecuador
lower montane forest Morona Santiago northern Andes rainforest taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Meriania judithiae, a new species from the southeast of Morona Santiago in Ecuador, is described and illustrated. With this new addition, the number of species of the genus increases to 33 in this country. Meriania judithiae has leaves with a attenuate base extending down the petiole as wings, multiflorous inflorescences with sub-umbellate paraclades, pink-orange campanulate flowers, the calyx with conical projections, and isomorphic stamens with connectives prolonged below the thecae. It is compared with M. cuneifolia, its most similar species which shares the distant supra-basal venation and gradually narrowing base of the leaves. In addition, the taxonomic similarities of the new entity are discussed and information about its distribution, habitat, and conservation status is provided.

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