Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Melastoma affine

Melastomataceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Myrtales(ordo)
Melastomataceae(fam.)
Melastoma(gen.)
affine(sp.)

Melastoma affine D.Don

, legitimate

, scientific

Don, D. (1823), An illustration of the natural family of plants called Melastomaceae.

Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society

:

288

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Hab. ad Freta Sundae dicta (Georgios Staunton, baronettus) in Indiâ Orientali. Roxburgh. ... (v.s. in Herb. Lamb.)"

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

145

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma denticulatum Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Melastomataceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

219-220, Fig. 34D

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma denticulatum Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

common name:

Blue Tongue

[n/a]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae.

Flora of Australia

:

248, Figs 61, 86, Map 346

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma novae-hollandiae Naudin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma malabathricum var. polyanthum (Blume) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma malabathricum var. nanum F.M.Bailey

legitimate

misapplication: Melastoma denticulatum Labill. legitimate by

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3

: 487 misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

: 133

APC Comment: Treated as Melastoma malabathricum L. var. malabathricum in NT and Qld.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Melastomataceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

198, pl. 15

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1

: 390 misapplication: Melastoma denticulatum Labill. legitimate by

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (October 1825), Sertum austro-caledonicum

: 65, t. 64

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Melastomataceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

548-549, Fig. 166A

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest

:

186-187, Fig. 379

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

common name:

Native Lasiandra

[n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

:

306

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

:

140, Fig. 44

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

:

72

[secondary reference]

Meyer, K. (2001), Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae).

:

364

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Melastoma malabathricum L. subsp. malabathricum

legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Melastomataceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

232

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Melastoma malabathricum L. subsp. malabathricum

legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

282

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Melastoma malabathricum L.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma novae-hollandiae Naudin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma malabathricum var. polyanthum (Blume) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma malabathricum var. nana F.M.Bailey

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma malabathricum var. nanum F.M.Bailey

legitimate

misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

2(11)

: xliv misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(30)

: 161 misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

: 60 misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. Jnr (1943), A contribution to the knowledge of the Melastomataceae occuring in the Malay Archipelago especially in the Netherlands East Indies

: 79-80 misapplication: Melastoma denticulatum Labill. legitimate by

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3

: 487 misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

: 133 misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Meyer, K. (2001), Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae).

Blumea

46(2)

: 364 misapplication: Melastoma malabathricum L. legitimate by

Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005.

Cunninghamia

12(1)

: 98-99

APC Comment: Treated as Melastoma malabathricum L. subsp. malabathricum in NT and Qld.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW