Nine new species and a new country record for Meriania (Melastomataceae) from Peru

Robin Fernandez-Hilario; Rocío Del Pilar Rojas Gonzáles; Rosa Villanueva-Espinoza; Leticia Lajo; Akira A. Wong Sato; Diego Paredes-Burneo; Luis Pillaca-Huacre; Fabián A. Michelangeli; Renato Goldenberg

doi:10.3372/wi.52.52103

Nine new species and a new country record for Meriania (Melastomataceae) from Peru

Robin Fernandez-Hilario
, Rocío Del Pilar Rojas Gonzáles
, Rosa Villanueva-Espinoza
, Leticia Lajo
, Akira A. Wong Sato
, Diego Paredes-Burneo
, Luis Pillaca-Huacre
, Fabián A. Michelangeli
, Renato Goldenberg

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-74
Number of pages	36
Journal	Willdenowia
Volume	52
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.52.52103
State	Published - 1 Apr 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Amazonas
Andean forests
Andean tepuis
Cusco
La libertad
Melastomataceae
Meriania
Merianieae
Neotropics
New species
Pasco
Peru
Piura
taxonomy

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