Miconia impetiolaris(Sw.) D.Don

camasey de costilla

WFO wfo-0001080546 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by ritirene
fig. a ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-17 / obs. 188882853
Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14359322
Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1942547
Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. d Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 5902673
Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by Alec McClay
fig. e Alec McClay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180814060
Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. f Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81737474
Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. g keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124091226
Miconia impetiolaris, photographed by keesgroenendijk
fig. h keesgroenendijk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77015963

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
00987612
Filed as
Miconia impetiolaris var. spruceana Cogn.
Det. by
R. Goldenberg 1998-01-01
Collected
J. J. Pipoly 1984-03-04
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Miconia impetiolaris is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoVenezuela Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Miconia impetiolaris, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 274 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 17.5 °C 20.4 °C 24.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.5 °C 29.2 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,624 mm 2,287 mm 4,286 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 69 mm 292 mm 506 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 274 research-grade observations of Miconia impetiolaris that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acinodendron impetiolare (Sw.) Kuntze
  • Melastoma impetiolare Sw.
  • Melastoma macrophylla Desr.
  • Melastoma macrophyllum Desr.
  • Miconia impetiolaris var. spruceana Cogn.
  • Miconia macrophylla Macfad
  • Miconia wydleriana DC.
  • Tamonea impetiolaris (Sw.) O.F.Cook & G.N.Collins

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.