- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328833-2
- Publication
- Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis ... (DC.)
- Collation
- 3: 172
- Date of Publication
- mid-Mar 1828
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Melastomataceae
Type Information
- Type Name
- Lectotype: T. discolor (Linnaeus) DC. (Melastoma discolor Linnaeus)
Remarks
The choice of T. tetrandra as the LT. (by Britton et Millspaugh, Bahama Fl. 298. 1920) is against the protologue, see Wurdack & Kral, J. Arnold Arbor. 63: 437. 1982.