Meriania sanguinea Wurdack (1967: 4). Figs. 2F–2H. Shrub 1.3– 4 m. Young branchlets rounded quadrangular, interpetiolar flaps present. Lamina cordate, above glabrous and slightly bullate, beneath setulous only on the veins. Distribution in Peru:—In shrubby patches next to montane forests on eastern slopes, among 2100 and 3050 m. Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, Cerro Chinguela; por encima de Chorro Blanco, 24 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva & Elluz Huamán 520 (USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, comunidad Campesina Segundo y Cajas, caserío Batán., 2357 m, 17M 681553 9435254, 27 October 2015, Diego F. Paredes, Marco Cueva & Elluz Huamán 550 (USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, carretera Sapalache – Cerro Chinguelas, 9.5 Km después de Sapalache, 3035 m, 5°8’23.6’’S 79°23’45.4’’W, 09 March 2016, F. A. Michelangeli, D. F. Paredes & M. Gavrutenko 2618 (NY, USM). El Carmen de la Frontera, Rosarios Alto, 2125 m, 02 ago 2004, José Campos, Oliverio Díaz, José Sembrera & Lizandro Bustamante 10243 (USM).

Published as part of Paredes-Burneo, Diego, Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Abstract, Asunción Cano, 2018, Twelve new records of Melastomataceae from northern Peru, pp. 237-246 in Phytotaxa 349 (3) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.349.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13709287