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Miconia dianae (Melastomataceae), a new species from Bahia (Brazil) with notes on leaf and hypanthium surfaces

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Miconia dianae is a new species described from four specimens collected in semideciduous forests in the municipality of Ribeirão do Largo, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. According to current data and based on IUCN criteria, this species should be qualified as “data deficient”, but we note that it should be actually considered as critically endangered, since the known habitat of M. dianae is reduced and subject of constant disturbance, which may perhaps lead to its extinction. The new species can be recognized by the inflorescences of pedunculate triads or seldom pauciflorous racemes with up to five flowers, these on a short pedicel topping an anthopodium 3–8 mm long, early caducous, filiform bracteoles, 5-merous flowers, terete hypanthia with verrucose projections on the abaxial surface, the calyx incompletely closed in bud, rupturing at anthesis in irregular lobes, white stamens with a dorso-basal hump and glandular trichomes on the connective, and a 3-locular, superior ovary with sparse glandular trichomes. The granulose surfaces of stems, leaves, inflorescences and hypanthia in dried specimens are caused by large druses, sometimes measuring half the thickness of the leaf mesophyll, that project themselves into hemispheric domes when the leaves are dried. The verrucose projections on the hypanthium develop from successive divisions of the ground tissue inside it. We were not able to explain its function, since they are not formed by crystals, nor seem to develop as pathogen or animal-induced galls, neither seem to store phenolic compounds nor starch. Since they fade away while the fruits ripen, they probably do not have any function related to dispersal either.

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The authors thank Diana Carneiro for the drawings, Yuri Gouvea for the photos of the plants in the field, Lucas Marinho for helping design the figure plates and Erika Amano for coordinating the “Laboratório de Botânica Estrutural” at UFPR. We also thank the reviewers Frank Almeda, Ana Flávia Versiane and the editor Marcelo Trovó for their suggestions on a previous version of this manuscript.

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This research was supported by the “Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico” (CNPq-Brazil) which awarded Research Productivity grants to AMA (Grant # 309550/2022) and RG (Grant # 310912/2021-0) and “Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior”(CAPES-Brazil) for the PhD grant to JKZ (#88887.373597/2019-00). This research was also partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF-USA; DEB-2001357).

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  1. Departamento de Botânica, Centro Politécnico, Universidade Federal Do Paraná, Postal Box 19031, Curitiba, Paraná, 81531-970, Brazil

    Renato Goldenberg

  2. The New York Botanical Garden, Institute of Systematic Botany, Bronx, NY, 10458-5126, USA

    Fabián A. Michelangeli

  3. Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-862, Brazil

    Juliana K. Ziemmer

  4. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, 45622-900, Brazil

    André M. Amorim

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Goldenberg, R., Michelangeli, F.A., Ziemmer, J.K. et al. Miconia dianae (Melastomataceae), a new species from Bahia (Brazil) with notes on leaf and hypanthium surfaces. Braz. J. Bot 46, 913–923 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-023-00932-6

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