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Taxon: Melastoma malabathricum L.

Genus: Melastoma
Family: Melastomataceae.
Nomen number: 23928
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:390. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 11-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
FL*, MA*, NC*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AFRICA
    Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Seychelles
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Eastern Asia: Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal
    Indo-China: Laos; Thailand
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

References:

  • Craib, W. G. & A. F. G. Kerr, eds. 1925–1962. Florae siamensis enumeratio. (F Siam)
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
  • Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
  • Meyer, K. 2001. Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae). Blumea 46:364–369.
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Check other databases for Melastoma malabathricum L.:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?23928 (09 February 2010)

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