Miconia
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.278.2.3 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F587C1-FFBF-FFAB-AAEA-07FAFA7A0D3B |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Miconia |
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Key to the dioecious species of Miconia View in CoL from Mexico and Mesoamerica
1. Branches obviously quadrate to quadrangular...................................................................................................................................2
- Branches obscurely quadrate to terete or sulcate...............................................................................................................................4
2. Stem internodes short and rugose; leaves coriaceous ...................................................................................................... M. coriacea View in CoL
- Stem internodes long and smooth; leaves membranaceous to chartaceous.......................................................................................3
3. Young stems terete to obscurely quadrate, interpetiolar line absent; leaves basally-nerved to plinerved apex of the ovary in pistillater flowers with small glandular trichomes ....................................................................................................................... M. glaberrima View in CoL
- Young stems quadrangular, interpetiolar line present; leaves always basally nerved; apex of the ovary in pistillate flowers glabrous. ....................................................................................................................................................................... M. rzedowskii View in CoL
4. Branches and/or petioles with simple trichomes, (other types of trichomes may be present as well................................................5
- Branches and/or petioles lacking simple trichomes (either glabrous or with only lepidote or flat scales).......................................8
5. Young branches indumentum redish to brown, composed of a mix of dendritic, stipitate-stellate and simple glandular trichomes 1.5 mm ................................................................................................................................................................................. M. vestita View in CoL
- Young branches indumentum whitish or yellowish, composed of simple non-glandular trichomes, and occasionally with dendritic trichomes and sessile (or nearly so) glandular trichomes...................................................................................................................6
6. Leaf blades basally-nerved; apex of the petioles and young branches with sparse robust conical trichomes; leaf adaxial surface with sparse simple trichomes................................................................................................................................................. M. oligotricha View in CoL
- Leaf blades plinerved; apex of the petiole and young branches with dense to sparse simple flexuous trichomes; leaf adaxial surface lacking simple trichomes....................................................................................................................................................................7
7. Branches, leaves, and inflorescences with dendritic trichomes; leaf abaxial surface with mite domatia formed by dense simple trichomes at the union of the primary and innermost secondary veins. ................................................................. M. portogallensis View in CoL
- Branches, leaves, and inflorescences without dendritic trichomes; leaf abaxial surface without mite domatia but rather with spreading trichomes along the veins ................................................................................................................................... M. sterilis View in CoL
8. Plants essentially glabrous or with a sparse brownish indumentum of small caduceus scales .................................... M. glaberrima View in CoL
- Plants with roughened-flattened trichomes and stellate to stellulate trichomes.................................................................................9
9. Indumentum whitish to yellow, composed of spreading flattened trichomes; hypanthia 1 mm long, berry white at maturity ........... ........................................................................................................................................................................................ M. purulensis View in CoL
- Indumentum reddish to brownish, composed of long roughened trichomes; hypanthia 2–2.5 mm long; berries blue to turquoise at maturity.............................................................................................................................................................................................10
10. Indumentum of stellate, fimbriate or asperous trichomes; leaves ovate to oblong, the base rounded to cordiform ........................... ................................................................................................................................................................................ M. hemenostigma View in CoL
- Indumentum of flattened irregularly roughened trichomes; leaves ovate to obovate-elliptic, the base acute to obtuse.. M. alpestris View in CoL
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