Melastoma malabathricum

基尖葉野牡丹

Melastoma malabathricum L.

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典藏標本

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相關資訊

L., Species Plantarum 2: 390. 1753. (Sp. Pl.)

Melastoma polyanthum Bl.

Yamamoto, Supplementa iconum plantarum Formosanarum 2: 29. 1926. (Suppl. Icon. Pl. Formos.)
Melastoma affine D. Don

Hatusima, Memoirs of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University 7(2): 318. 1970. (Mem. Fac. Agric., Kagoshima Univ.)
Melastoma normale D. Don

Liu, Lu & Ou, Trees of Taiwan 494. 1994. (Tr. Taiwan)

Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou, Trees of Taiwan revised . 1994. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)
Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982. (List Pl. Taiwan)

A shrub; branch with stiff scaly hairs, young one tetragonal.
Leaves ovate, 3–5-nerved, acute or acuminate at apex, rounded at base, 5–12 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm broad, with appressed hairs at both surfaces, slightly serrate at margin; petioles 6–25 mm long, with short appressed hairs.
Inflorescens terminal umbellate; pedun¬cles about 2 cm long, tetragonal, grooved; bracts leafy like; calyx imbricate in bud, ovate-triangular, 1–1.4 cm long, with long appressed hair.
Fruit ovoid, 11–12 mm across, 12–13 mm long.

台灣 : Only confined to Lanyu and Green Island in the sunny disturbed hill slope or along coastal highway at altitude 0–300 m.
世界 : Distributed from Malay Peninsula through southern China to the Philippines;