Useful information about the plant family
Family: Melastomataceae Juss. 1789
- Description-internal
- Herbs, shrubs or trees, sometimes climbers or epiphytes. Leaves opposite, usually with 3-9 prominent veins.
- Leaf characters
- Leaves opposite, usually with 3-9 prominent veins, these subparallel
Distribution maps
(online von http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ . Dort zitiert wie unter jedem Diagramm vermerkt):
| Olisbeoideae (Melastomataceae) |
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| map: from Morley 1976; Schatz 2001 |
| Pternandra (Melastomataceae) |
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| map: based on Maxwell 1981 |
| Melatomatoideae (Melastomataceae) |
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| map: from Quian & Ricklefs 2004; FloraBase 2007; Woodgyer 2007 |