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Melastoma malabathricum L. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Melastoma (family Melastomataceae).

The record derives from Tropicos (data supplied on 2012-04-18 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 20302081) with original publication details: Sp. Pl. 1: 390 1753.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:570989-1.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Melastoma affine D. Don	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma candidum D. Don	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma cavaleriei H. Lév. & Vaniot	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma esquirolii H. Lév.	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma malabathricum subsp. malabathricum	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma malabathricum var. normale (D. Don) R.C. Srivast.	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma malabathricum subsp. normale (D. Don) Karst. Mey.	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma normale D. Don	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18
Melastoma polyanthum Blume	Synonym		TRO	2012-04-18

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record tro-20302081.

• this name record has not changed
• names related to this name have changed