SUBGENUS: decaloba
SUPERSECTION: decaloba
SECTION: decaloba
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:
Panama and northeastern South America.
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 5 °C
IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 8 °C
SYNONYMS: P. discolor Link & Otto, P. laticaulis Killip, P. longilobis Hoehne, P. maximiliana Bory, P. microcarpa Mast, P. retusa Hook, P. translinearis Rusby,
ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin miser, poor, perhaps for the morphological characteristics.
NOTES: Chromosomes: 2n=12, 2n=36 (Melo et al., 2001)