A new section, Miconia sect. Menendezia, is recognized, characterized, and assessed phylogenetically. The section includes three species: M. angustifolia, M. biflora, and M. urbanii. All three have fruits with constricted hypanthia, and traditionally were included within an extremely non-monophyletic Tetrazygia. The monophyly of the section is supported by molecular analyses and morphology (i.e., calyx teeth flattened parallel to the associated lobe and equaling to much longer than the calyx lobes, and possibly also hypanthium constricted and calyx tube regularly tearing between the lobes). In addition, the inflorescence branches are flattened, although this condition is only poorly developed in M. angustifolia. Miconia urbanii (incl. M. stahlii) and M. biflora are morphologically distinctive (i.e., as evidenced by their strongly flattened inflorescence axes, flowers with an elongate hypanthium and calyx lobes, large petals that are undulate on one side, and fully inferior, slightly to strongly 4-lobed ovary) and these characters are likely synapomorphic for the putative M. urbanii + M. biflora clade, which was recognized as the genus Menendezia by N. L. Britton. Species descriptions, nomenclatural information, specimen citations, and eco-geographical characterization for each of the three species are presented, along with an identification key. Section Menendezia is well supported as a subclade within the Caribbean clade of Miconia, a morphologically heterogeneous clade of ca. 160 species (out of a total of some 1900 species in the genus). Finally, the names Calycogonium biflorum, Tetrazygia angustifolia, T. stahlii, and T. urbanii are lectotypified.

一个新的部分，米科尼亚教派。Menendezia被系统发育识别、表征和评估。该部分包括三个物种：M. angustifolia、M. biflora和M. urbanii。这三个果实都有收缩的hypanthia，传统上被包含在一个非常非单系的Tetrazygia中. 该部分的单一性得到分子分析和形态学的支持（即，萼齿平行于相关裂片变平并等于比萼裂片长得多，并且可能还有托杯收缩和萼管在裂片之间有规律地撕裂）。此外，花序分枝是扁平的，尽管这种情况仅在M. angustifolia中发育不良。Miconia urbanii (包括M. stahlii ) 和M. biflora在形态上是独特的（即，由它们强烈扁平的花序轴、带有拉长的托杯和萼裂片的花朵、一侧起伏的大花瓣和完全下位的、稍微到强烈的 4 裂的子房证明）并且这些特征很可能假定的M. urbanii + M. biflora clade 的同形物，NL Britton 将其识别为Menendezia属。提供了三个物种中每一个的物种描述、命名信息、标本引用和生态地理特征，以及一个识别码。Menendezia部分作为加勒比海Miconia进化枝的一个子进化枝得到了很好的支持，一个形态异质的进化枝。160 种（该属共有约 1900 种）。最后，对名称Calycogonium biflorum、Tetrazygia angustifolia、T. stahlii和T. urbanii进行了选型。