Miconia reburrosa Wurdack (1967: 23). Fig. 3E. Shrub 3.5 m. Young branchlets, petioles, leaf nerves below and inflorescences setose to setulose. Young branchlets terete. Leaf blades elliptic, above bullate and stellulate-furfuraceous, 5(–7)-nerved. Dioecious plant; pistillate flowers 5-merous (only pistillate flowers seen). Distribution in Peru:—Montane forests on eastern slopes, between 2350 and 2450 m. Specimens examined:— PERU. Piura. Huancabamba: El Carmen de la Frontera, Sapalache, en la trocha de Chinguela en dirección de playón, 2431 m, Bernard Peyton, N.Y.Z.S 20 (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 548 (NY, 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 pages 241-242, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.349.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13709287