Miconia prasina

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Melastomataceae

Herbs, shrubs , or trees (to 20 m tall), erect , climbing , or rarely epiphytic. Stipules lacking. Leaves simple , commonly opposite and decussate with one of a pair slightly smaller than other, rarely verticillate or alternate by abortion of one of a pair, usually 1-4(or 5) secondary veins on each side of midvein , originating at or near base and anastomosing apically, tertiary veins numerous, parallel, and connecting secondary veins and midvein but in Memecylon secondary veins pinnate and tertiary veins reticulate . Inflorescences cymose , umbellate , corymbose , in paniculate clusters , or a cincinnus, rarely flowers single, fascicled, or born on a spike; bracts sometimes conspicuous and persistent . Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic but androecium often slightly zygomorphic, usually (3 or) 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, perianth biseriate , perigynous; bracteoles opposite, usually caducous . Hypanthium funnel-shaped, campanulate , cyathiform , or urceolate . Calyx lobes (3-) 5(or 6), valvate (rarely connate , but not in Chinese species) . Petals (3-) 5(or 6), equal to number of sepals, distinct , imbricate. Stamens usually twice as many as petals and in 2 whorls, rarely as many as petals by loss of 1 whorl, isomorphic or dimorphic ; filaments distinct, often geniculate , inflexed in bud; anthers typically 2-celled, introrse , basifixed , dehiscent by 1 or 2 apical pores or by short longitudinal slits (Astronia, Memecylon) ; connective often variously appendaged. Pistil and style 1; stigma minute, capitate or truncate . Ovary commonly inferior or semi-inferior, locules usually (3 or) 4 or 5(or 6) with numerous anatropous ovules , rarely 1-loculed and ovules ca. 9 (Memecylon) ; placentation axillary , parietal (Astronia and, outside China, Pternandra Jack ), or free central (Memecylon) . Fruit a dry or fleshy capsule or a berry, loculicidally dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds (when 3-6-loculed) usually small, curved through half a circle (cochleate) or wedge-shaped (cuneate), in Memecylon seeds large and ovoid ; endosperm absent.

Between 156 and 166 genera (150-160 in Melastomataceae sensu stricto and six in Memecylaceae here considered part of Melastomataceae) and ca. 4500 species (ca. 4050 in Melastomataceae sensu stricto and 450 in Memecylaceae [Olisbeoideae if considered a subfamily of Melastomataceae]) : primarily in tropical and subtropical regions; 21 genera (five endemic) and 114 species (72 endemic) in China.

Chinese genera of economic value include Osbeckia (medicine) and Melastoma (wild fruit and ornamental flowers) .[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,051 meters (0 to 10,010 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Acinodendron prasinum (Sw.) Kuntze • Melastoma laevigatum L. • Melastoma prasinum Sw. • Miconia prasina< /i> (Sw.) Dc. • Miconia virescens (Vahl) Triana

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Miconia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. affinis (Saquiyac) · M. calvescens (Miconia) · M. foveolata (Puerto Rico Johnnyberry) · M. impetiolaris (Camasey De Costilla) · M. laevigata (Smooth Johnnyberry) · M. lanata (Hairy Johnnyberry) · M. mirabilis (Camasey Cuatrocanales) · M. pachyphylla (Camasey Racimoso) · M. prasina (Granadillo Bobo) · M. pseudonervosa (Lattice Monocle Bream) · M. punctata (Auquey) · M. pycnoneura (Ridge Johnny Berry) · M. racemosa (Camasey Felpa) · M. rubiginosa (Peraleio) · M. serrulata (Jau Jau) · M. sintenisii (Mountain Johnnyberry) · M. splendensc (Giant Bully) · M. subcorymbosa (Forest Johnny Berry) · M. tetrandra (Rajador) · M. tetrastoma (Graceful Johnny Berry) · M. thomasiana (Camasey Tomaso)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the botany of the Isle of Pines, Cuba, based upon the specimens of plants from that island contained in the herbarium of the Carnegie Museum under date of October, 1916. By O.E. Jennings. n.p., 1917 url p. 210, p. 29.
• A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalized flowering plants of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1893. url .
• An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 202, p. 253.
• An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam: together with their distribution and synonymy / by A. Pulle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1906. url p. 353, p. 535.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 210, p. 29.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url , .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 143, p. 231, p. 53.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 17 1890 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 60.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 101, p. 104, p. 107, p. 121, p. 62, p. 90, p. 93, p. 96, p. 98.
• Common trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands / by Elbert L. Little, Jr., and Frank H. Wadsworth. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1964. url , p. 418, p. 422, p. 423, p. 541.
• Contributions from the Herbarium of Columbia College. New York: Columbia College, 1886-1896. url p. 212.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 1063, p. 107, p. 140, p. 50, p. 54, p. 91, p. 92.
• Contributions to North American ichthyology. Based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1877-78. url p. 53.
• Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1034.
• Dedication papers: scientific papers presented at the dedication of the laboratory building and plant houses, April 19-21, 1917. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1918. url p. 76.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1938 Chicago, 1937. url p. 828.
• Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Louis O. Williams. 24 1963 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1963. url p. 487, p. 488, p. 491.
• Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London.Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910- url p. 368, p. 369, p. 369, p. 375, p. 375.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1941 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] url p. 425, p. 426, p. 441, p. 442.
• Forest of Port Rico; Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916. url p. 62.
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• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 131, p. 144, p. 248, p. 379, p. 414.
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• Plantae Utowanae. Plants collected in Bermuda, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Culebras, Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, The Caymans, Cozumel, Yucatan and the Alacran shoals. Dec. 1898-Mar. 1899. The Antillean cruise of the yach 2 1900 Chicago, 1900. url p. 80.
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• The genus Meliola in Porto Rico, including descriptions of sixty-two new species and varieties and a synopsis of all known Porto Rican forms. With five plates. By Frank Lincoln Stevens. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1916 url p. 30, p. 71.
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• Chen Cheih. 1984. Melastomataceae. In: Chen Cheih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 135-293.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax
• SysTax, United States National Herbarium
• SysTax, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2651590
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-27727
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13743383
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:572991-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 438460
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 27727
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: MEPR4
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 49517

Footnotes

1. Jie Chen & Susanne S. Renner "Melastomataceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 360. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 395.220 meters (1,296.654 feet), Standard Deviation = 787.240 based on 956 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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