Taxon: Miconia calvescens DC.

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Common names:

• miconia   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  
• purple plague   (Source: Biol Invas ) – English
  
• sammetsbuske   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Meyer & Florence 1996; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Brazil: Brazil [s.e.]
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Paraguay

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland [n.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. Pp. 255–267 in: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Kaiser, B. A. 2006. Economic impacts of non-indigenous species: Miconia and the Hawaiian economy. Euphytica 148:135–150.
• Meyer, J. Y. & J. Florence. 1996. Tahiti's native flora endangered by the invasion of Miconia calvescens DC. (Melastomataceae). J. Biogeogr. 23:775–781.
• Murphy, H. T. et al. 2008. Predicting dispersal and recruitment of Miconia calvescens (Melastomataceae) in Australian tropical rainforests. Biol. Invas. 10:925–936.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Ulloa, C. 2012. Review of Melastomataceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Miconia calvescens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Miconia calvescens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Miconia calvescens.

Synonyms:

• (=) Miconia magnifica (Groenl.) Triana
  

Check other web resources for Miconia calvescens DC.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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