View source for Melastoma ← Melastoma You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Melastoma |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=1: 389. 1753 |year=1753 }} |common_names=Melastome |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Melastomataceae;Melastoma |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Melastomataceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Melastoma]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek melas, black, and stoma, opening, alluding to stained mouth, especially of children, when fruits of some species are eaten |volume=Volume 10 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees. <b>Stems</b> erect or procumbent, 4-sided [subterete], often squamose-strigose; bark scaly. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; blade with 1 or 2[–4] pairs of lateral primary veins, marginal pairs often inconspicuous, margins entire, surfaces usually strigose [subvillous to villous, rarely glabrate]. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or in distal foliar axils, usually cymes, rarely panicles or flowers solitary; bracts deciduous or persistent, leaflike, ovate, sometimes conspicuous. <b>Flowers</b> pedicellate; hypanthium campanulate to globose-urceolate; calyx deciduous, 5-lobed, lobes triangular to lanceolate or ovate; petals 5(–8), spreading, symmetric, light to dark pink, lavender, or purple; stamens 10, unequal, in 2 whorls, dimorphic, episepalous stamens with purple, upcurved anthers and long connectives, epipetalous stamens with yellow, straight anthers and shorter connectives, or stamens isomorphic and connectives slightly prolonged; anthers slightly downcurved, linear-oblong, 2-locular, dehiscent by 1 or 2 apical pores, or by short, longitudinal slits; ovary semi-inferior, adnate to floral tube, 5-locular; style straight, filiform, equal to petals. <b>Fruits</b> fleshy and irregularly splitting-dehiscent, [capsules and apically dehiscent, or berries and fleshy, indehiscent]. <b>Seeds</b> cochleate.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Florida;Asia;Pacific Islands;Australia;introduced also in Mexico;elsewhere in Pacific Islands (New Zealand). |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 22 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Most species of Melastoma have fleshy, irregularly dehiscent fruits; others have dry capsules [for example, M. pellegrinianum (H. Boissieu) Karsten Meyer].</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Melastoma |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Melastomataceae |distribution=Florida;Asia;Pacific Islands;Australia;introduced also in Mexico;elsewhere in Pacific Islands (New Zealand). |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl. |publication year=1753 |special status= |source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/e39f0e846f172941159b2045254d62d10d9823f6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_703.xml |genus=Melastoma }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Melastomataceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Melastomataceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Melastoma.