Title
Nine new species and a new country record for Meriania (Melastomataceae) from Peru
Date Issued
01 April 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Rojas Gonzáles R.D.P.
Lajo L.
Pillaca-Huacre L.
Michelangeli F.A.
Goldenberg R.
Louisiana State University
Abstract
Abstract: Nine new species of Meriania are described and illustrated and M. zunacensis, originally described from Ecuador, is recorded for the first time for Peru from Andean forests in the Amazonas Department. The new species are M. bicentenaria and M. vasquezii from Pasco, M. bongarana, M. callosa and M. juanjil from Amazonas, M. hirsuta from Piura, M. megaphylla from La Libertad, M. sumatika from Cusco and M. escalerensis from the Loreto-San Martín border. Following IUCN criteria, M. megaphylla is categorized as Data Deficient (DD) as it is only known from one collection made in 1914, M. bicentenaria and M. sumatika are categorized as Endangered (EN) and the remaining new species are categorized as Critically Endangered (CR). With these discoveries, N Peru (Departments of Amazonas, Cajamarca and Piura) harbours the highest number of Meriania species in the country. Also, Peru now has a total of 34 species of Meriania and is the country with the second highest diversity for the genus. Citation: Fernandez-Hilario R., Rojas Gonzáles R. del P., Villanueva-Espinoza R., Lajo L., Wong Sato A. A., Paredes-Burneo D., Pillaca-Huacre L., Michelangeli F. A. and Goldenberg R. 2022: Nine new species and a new country record for Meriania (Melastomataceae) from Peru.-Willdenowia 52: 39-74. Version of record first published online on 3 March 2022 ahead of inclusion in April 2022 issue.
Start page
39
End page
74
Volume
52
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85131212885
Source
Willdenowia
ISSN of the container
05119618
Sponsor(s)
Funding text 2
We thank Wilder Chuquitucto for his invaluable support during our botanical collecting and Luis Torres and Lu-cero Alfaro for the photos of their collections. We thank the curators of the AMAZ, CPUN, CUZ, HOXA, HSP, HUT, KUELAP, MOL, NY, UPCB and USM herbaria for access to specimens. Frank Almeda (CAS) and an anonymous reviewer provided valuable comments on a previous version of this manuscript. Permission to collect and study these species was given by the Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR), no. 061-2020-MINAGRI-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS and no. 079-2016-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS, and the Servicio Na-cional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (SERNANP), no. 007-2017-SERNANP-PNYCh. This project was supported through a fellowship from OTS (Bossuyt-Fund 518) and CAPES/Brazil to RFH.
Funding text 1
Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR), no. 061-2020-MINAGRI-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS
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