taxonID	type	description	language	source
1C27615998E05E4C9DC6E620FE8CF477.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2	en	Mendoza-Cifuentes, Humberto, Ariza-Cortés, William, Carvajal Rojas, Lyndon (2024): Miconia garagoana - Melastomataceae: A new rheophytic species from the eastern Andes of Colombia. PhytoKeys 247: 145-154, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.247.119563
1C27615998E05E4C9DC6E620FE8CF477.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Rheophytic shrubs with stellate-lepidote trichomes in distal branches and inflorescences; leaves linear-elliptic, 3 - nerved or 3 - slightly plinerved, length-to-width ratio is greater than 5.5: 1; terminal inflorescences with 1 - 9 (- 14) flowers, flowers 4 - merous (rarely 5 - merous), anthers oblong-subulate with a ventrally oriented pore, ovary 2 - locular, fruits bluish-green with large and relatively few sedes. Similar to Miconia riparia Triana but differs in the indumentum of stellate-lepidote trichomes (vs. indumentum of pinoid trichomes in M. riparia), flowers predominantly 4 - merous (vs. 5 - merous). Also similar to Miconia rheophytica Posada-Herrera & Almeda, but the latter has branches with dense indumentum of dendritic ferruginous trichomes, ciliate leaf margins, dichasial axillary inflorescences, 5 - merous flowers and 3 - locular ovary.	en	Mendoza-Cifuentes, Humberto, Ariza-Cortés, William, Carvajal Rojas, Lyndon (2024): Miconia garagoana - Melastomataceae: A new rheophytic species from the eastern Andes of Colombia. PhytoKeys 247: 145-154, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.247.119563
1C27615998E05E4C9DC6E620FE8CF477.taxon	description	Description. Shrub 30 – 250 cm tall, rheophytic; foliage dense; external bark smooth and whitish; primary branches sympodial, plagiotropic; young branches quadrangular, flattened and slightly channeled, older branches becoming oblong-terete and exfoliating in thin flakes; apical buds with dense indument of stellate-lepidote trichomes (type 38 of Wurdack 1986); internodes 0.9 – 3.5 cm long, 1.7 – 3.3 mm wide. Leaves decussate, isophyllous; petiole 5 – 17 mm long, slightly channeled adaxially, glabrous; blade 40 – 85 × 7 – 17 mm, linear-elliptic, apex and base acute, margin entire, revolute and denticulate toward apex, adaxial surface green, shiny (fresh material) and glabrous, in mature leaves yellow, abaxial surface clear pale green, with sparse stellate-lepidote trichomes especially along the middle vein; venation with one pair of secondary veins accompanying the middle vein, nerved or slightly plinerved to 1 – 3 mm, 22 – 34 pairs of tertiary veins lateral to the middle vein, 1 – 3 mm apart in the middle, central vein raised on both surfaces, tertiary veins blurred on the lower side. Inflorescence 2.5 – 5 cm long, paniculate, sparsely branched, terminal, sessile or with a peduncle 5 – 20 mm long, with a sparse to dense indument of stellate-lepidote trichomes (type 38); 1 - 9 (- 14) flowers, sessiles; central axis with 1 – 5 branching nodes; branch apices regularly with one flower; basal nodes with linear bracts 2 – 5 mm long, distal nodes with linear-subulate bracts 1.7 – 4.4 mm long; flower supported by two linear-triangular bracteoles 0.7 – 1 mm long. Flowers 4 - merous, rarely 5 - merous, diplostemonous. Hypanthium 2.3 – 2.4 × 1.7 – 2 mm, obconical, externally with dense indument of stellate-lepidote trichomes (type 39) ca. 0.09 mm diameter; internally glabrous and slightly ribbed; free thalamus of ovary ca. 0.9 mm long. Calyx lobed, externally with indument similar to the hypanthium; tube ca. 0.2 mm long; lobes 0.2 – 0.3 × 1.2 – 1.3 mm, wide triangular; dorsal teeth 0.55 – 0.6 mm long, triangular and exceeding the lobe length. Corolla patent; petals 2.9 – 3.2 × 1.4 – 1.7 mm, spatulate, apex rounded, white, glabrous. Stamens isomorphic, glabrous, white; filaments 3.3 – 3.7 mm long; anthers 1.8 – 2.1 × 0.4 × 0.6 mm, oblong-subulate, with a ventrally oriented pore ca. 0.2 mm diameter; basal connective with two little ventral lobules 0.2 – 0.35 mm long. Ovary 1.6 – 1.7 mm long, 2 - locular, basal part fused to the hypanthium ca. 1 mm long, apical part free of the hypanthium ca. 0.6 mm long, rounded, glabrous; style 5 – 6.1 mm long, cylindric; stigma 0.3 – 0.4 mm diameter, punctiform. Fruit 15 – 18 × 8 – 15 mm, pyriform, slightly ribbed, bluish-green when ripe, with 12 – 18 seeds. Seeds 1.3 – 2 × 1.2 – 1.5 mm, ovoid and angled, antiraphal portion symmetrical and ovate; testa smooth, shiny, light yellow.	en	Mendoza-Cifuentes, Humberto, Ariza-Cortés, William, Carvajal Rojas, Lyndon (2024): Miconia garagoana - Melastomataceae: A new rheophytic species from the eastern Andes of Colombia. PhytoKeys 247: 145-154, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.247.119563
1C27615998E05E4C9DC6E620FE8CF477.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the municipality of Garagoa in the department of Boyacá, where the majority of individuals of the species have been observed.	en	Mendoza-Cifuentes, Humberto, Ariza-Cortés, William, Carvajal Rojas, Lyndon (2024): Miconia garagoana - Melastomataceae: A new rheophytic species from the eastern Andes of Colombia. PhytoKeys 247: 145-154, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.247.119563
