A Revised Circumscription And Clarification Of The Taxonomic Position Of Miconia Tetrazygioides (Melastomataceae: Miconieae): An Endemic To The Massif De La Hotte, Haiti

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Judd, Walter S., Majure, Lucas C. (2021): A Revised Circumscription And Clarification Of The Taxonomic Position Of Miconia Tetrazygioides (Melastomataceae: Miconieae): An Endemic To The Massif De La Hotte, Haiti. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 15 (1): 67-71, DOI: 10.17348/jbrit.v15.i1.1051, URL: doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v15.i1.1051 ABSTRACT An investigation of the type material of Miconia tetrazygioides indicates that this species, only known from the type gathering (Ekman H 10684), is conspecific with the recently described M. cineana.

The two differ vegetatively in no significant characters,showing only a slight difference in the range in variation of leaf width, shape, apex, and margin. The species has been poorly collected, with only a total of five gatherings known, and flowers have yet to be collected; it is endemic to the Massif de la Hotte, of Haiti, occurring in rak bwa from 930 to 1300 m. DNA nucleotide sequences indicate that the species is related to those of the M. decorticans clade, which have moderate-sized to large flowers with more or less constricted hypanthia/calyces.Traditionally, most species of the M. decorticans clade were included within Tetrazygia or Pachyanthus.