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

Authors:

Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (né Goujaud)

Published In: Monographia Melastomacearum 1: 7–8, t. 4. 1806. (Monogr. Melast.)
Annotation: as Melastoma "ocotona"; Melastoma is neuter (F. Almeda, 1999)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in monte Quindiu juxta fluvium Guaduas, río de las Guaduas (riviére de bamboux)

Collector and Number: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n.

Distribution: Colombia

Type Specimens

• HT: Humboldt & Bonpland 1745; ; Colombia: in monte Quindiu juxta fluvium Guaduas

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:

Clidemia octona (Bonpl.) L.O. Williams

Heterotrichum octonum (Bonpl.) DC.

Miconia octona (Bonpl.) Judd & Majure

Staphidium octonum (Bonpl.) Naudin

**Stephanotrichum octonum (Bonpl.) Naudin ex Hemsl.

Projects: Bolivia , Ecuador , Mesoamericana , Peru

Keywords: BOL, CEC, PERU, BCA