Miconia prasina Candolle 1828
Creators: name: Silva-Gonçalves, Kelly Cristina Da
name: Baumgratz, José Fernando A.
name: Nunes-Freitas, André Felippe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Miconia
Miconia prasina

description: 5.9. Miconia prasina (Swartz 1788: 69) Candolle (1828: 188). [Figs. 3n, 8n–q]   
 Treelets or trees, 2–7 m; indumentum of the branches, leaves, inflorescences, hypanthium and calyx furfuraceousstellulate, the trichomes caducous. Petioles 0.5–1.3 cm long; blade 10.9–26 × 4–8.7 cm, green, concolour to subconcolour, membranaceous to papiraceous, elliptic, base acute-decurrent or obtuse-cuneate, apex acuminate to acute, margin crenulate, abaxial surface early-glabrescent; acrodromous veins 5, the inner pair 15–44 mm suprabasal. Thyrsoids 9.9–19.9 cm long, no branchlets of glomerules; bracts ca. 1 × 0.5–0.8 mm, bracteoles 0.7–0.9 × 0.2–0.4 mm, both concave, oblong-triangular, apex acute, persistent. Flowers 5-merous, pedicelate; hypanthium 1.5–2.1 × 1.2–1.9 mm, campanulate; inner torus glabrous; calyx persistent, lobes 0.6–0.9 × 0.8–1 mm, triangular; petals 2–2.5 × 1–1.6 mm, white, asymmetric, ovate, apex obtuse to rounded, sometimes emarginate; stamens isomorphic, subequal in size; filaments 3–4 mm long; anthers 2.8–3 mm long, white, pore terminal, connective slightly prolonged, appendage bilobed, with lateral and ventral lobes, or 3-lobed, with an additional dorsal calcar; ovary 0.8–1.3 × 1–1.5 mm, inferior, 3-celled, puberulous; style 5.8–6.5 mm, glabrous. Bacidium 3–4 × 3.2–4.2 mm, subglobose, puberulous, polyspermous (50–80 seeds); seeds 0.7–1 × 0.4–0.9 mm, narrowly obtriangular.   
 Specimens examined:— 17.XII.1997, fr., R. Facre 5 (RBR); 13.V.1998, fl., R. Couto s.n. (RB 378276, RBR 10258); 28.XII.1998, fr., L.F.T. Menezes & M.C. Souza s.n. (RBR 10260); 29.V.1999, fr., L.F.T. Menezes et al. 291 (RBR); 16.II.2000, fl., fr., R.H.P. Lima 348 (RBR); 15.IV.2000, fl., M. Conde 481 (RB, RBR); 3.VIII.2002, fr., Adriano & G.M. Siqueira 69 (RBR); 7.IV.2007, fl., K.C. Silva 2, 5 (RB, RBR); 7.VII.2007, fr., K.C. Silva 17 (RB, RBR); 12–13.X.2007, fr., K.C. Silva 20 (RB, RBR); 9.I.2010, fl., K.C. Silva 63 (RBR).   
 Distribution:—This species has a wide distribution, occurring from southern Mexico, Central America and the West Indies to Paraguay. In Brazil, it is found in almost all states, usually in open areas (Goldenberg 2009, 2012).   
 Comments:—In Marambaia, M. prasina occurs in Restinga Forest and Dense Submontane Ombrophilous Forest, and it is a great source of food for the local fauna. This species can also be identified by the adult green concolored to subconcolored leaves, the distinctly suprabasal acrodromous venation, and the bilobed connective with latero-ventral lobes, or 3-lobate, due to the presence of a dorsal appendage. Aditional illustrations in Baumgratz et al. (2006).
description: Published as part of Silva-Gonçalves, Kelly Cristina Da, Baumgratz, José Fernando A. & Nunes-Freitas, André Felippe, 2014, Melastomataceae in a continental Atlantic Forest island from southeastern Brazil, pp. 61-92 in Phytotaxa 183 (2) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.183.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5149548