Melastoma sanguineum

Species of tree

Melastoma sanguineum

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Myrtales
Family:  | Melastomataceae
Genus:  | Melastoma
Species:  |

M. sanguineum

Binomial name
Melastoma sanguineum

Sims[1]

Melastoma sanguineum is called red melastome or fox-tongued melastoma in English. They are erect shrubs or small slender trees with medium-sized violet-pink colored flowers with 6 petals that have made them attractive for cultivation. The leaves have the 5 distinctive longitudinal veins (nerves) typical of plants in the family Melastomataceae.

## Description[edit]

Melastoma sanguineum are erect shrubs or small trees up to 2 to 4 m tall.[2] Leaves are ovate-lanceolate 10 to 20 cm long.

Fruit in the form of berries 15 mm long with 6 cells and many small seeds. Chromosome number 2n = 56.[2]

## Distribution[edit]

Native to Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Vietnam, and southern China.[2] Occasionally cultivated in Hawaii. Naturalized populations have escaped cultivation and are spreading on Hawaii Island in the Keaukaha area and on the highway from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to Hilo.[2]

## Taxonomy[edit]

Melastoma sanguineum was first described by John Sims in 1821 (Botanical Magazine 48: pl. 2241).[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System Report Page Melastoma sanguineum Sims
2. ^ a b c d Wagner, Warren L.; Herbst, Derral R.; Sohmer, S.H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai`i. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 910–911. ISBN 0-8248-2166-1.
3. ^ Tropicos - Missouri Botanical Garden. Name Search > Melastoma sanguineum Sims

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q11128255
* Wikispecies: Melastoma sanguineum
* BOLD: 801195
* CoL: 6R8WW
* EoL: 486816
* EPPO: MESSA
* FoC: 200014968
* GBIF: 3188512
* GRIN: 23932
* iNaturalist: 165231
* IPNI: 571204-1
* IRMNG: 11428399
* ITIS: 503738
* IUCN: 146095936
* NatureServe: 2.159095
* NCBI: 122218
* Open Tree of Life: 97007
* PalDat: Melastoma_sanguineum
* Plant List: tro-20305182
* PLANTS: MESA3
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:571204-1
* Tropicos: 20305182
* WFO: wfo-0001083258

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