- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:280855-2
- Publication
- Phytologia; Designed to Expedite Botanical Publication. New York
- Collation
- 64(4): 296
- Date of Publication
- 29 Feb 1988
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Melastomataceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- P.J.Edwards K.E.R. 107
- Locality
- in dense scrub on north ridge escarpment of Mt. Roraima, elev. ca 2280 m
- Collection Date
- 26 Mar 1978
- Type Herbaria
- holotype K
isotype K
isotype US - Latitude
- 5° 15' 25" N
- Longitude
- 60° 44' 50" W
- Distribution Of Types
- Guyana (Northern South America, Southern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
(as cacumina)
Remarks
Wurdack’s proposed epithet cacumina is a plural neuter noun in nominative; he seems to have used the epithet as a feminine adjective (an error); based on the conventional usage, his epithet is corrected to: cacuminis (genitive singular noun)
Links
- Same citation as
- Miconia cacumina Wurdack, Phytologia 64(4): 296 (1988).