Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 2nd, B, 223

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 1: 390. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
Annotation: as Melastoma "holosericea"

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in Brasilia, Jamaica, Surinamo

Distribution: Neotropicos

Type Specimens

• LT: Cliffort Herb. 162, Melastoma 2; ; Brazil? or Surinam? LT designated by Wurdack in Görts-van Rijn (ed.), Fl. Guianas, ser. A, 13: 202 (1993)

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Rosanae Takht.
• order:  Myrtales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Melastomataceae Juss.
• genus:  Melastoma L.

Other names for this basionym:

Acinodendron holosericeum (L.) Kuntze

!Miconia holosericea (L.) DC.

**Miconia holosericea (L.) Triana

Pleroma holosericea (L.) D. Don

Projects: Bolivia , Mesoamericana , Panama , Peru , VPA

Keywords: BOL, PERU, BCA