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

Authors:

Richard, Louis Claude Marie

Published In: Actes de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 109. 1792. (Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris)
Annotation: as "Tomentosa"; Melastoma is neuter (F. Almeda, 1999)

Type-Protologue

Locality: French Guiana: Cayenne

Collector and Number: Le Blond s.n.

Distribution: French Guiana

Type Specimens

• HT: Leblond s.n.; ; French Guiana

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 tomentosum (Rich.) Kuntze

Diplochita tomentosa (Rich.) Griseb.

Jucunda tomentosa (Rich.) Benth.

*Miconia tomentosa (Rich.) D. Don ex DC.

!Miconia tomentosa (Rich.) D. Don ex DC.

Projects: Bolivia , Ecuador , Mesoamericana , Peru , VPA

Keywords: BOL, CEC, PERU