- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:570989-1
- Publication
- Species Plantarum
- Collation
- 1: 390
- Date of Publication
- 1 May 1753
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Melastomataceae
Type Information
- Locality
- Habitat in India.
- Type Herbaria
- lectotype BM (000594487)
- Chosen By
- Bremer Regnum Veg. 127 : 65. 1993 Bremer (l.c.) designated the material in Herb. Hermann (BM) in vol. 1: 55, no. 171 as the [second-step] lectotype.
- Distribution Of Types
- Kerala (India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Sri Lanka (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Original Data
- Remarks
- Ind. or.; Malaya
Remarks
Bremer (in Dassanayake & Fosberg (ed.), Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6 : 159. 1987) designated the material in Herb. Hermann (BM) in both vol. 1: 55 and 4: 3 as the [first-step] lectotype.
Links
- Same citation as
- Melastoma malabathricum L., Sp. Pl. 1: 390 (1753).