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Osbeckia stellata - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Osbeckia stellata - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Osbeckia stellata - Flower buds - Click to enlarge!

Flower buds; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Osbeckia stellata - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Osbeckia stellata - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Osbeckia stellata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 1480
Date of entry: 15.12.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Starry Osbeckia

Mandarin: 星毛金锦香 (xing mao jin jin xiang)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Myrtales (76)

        Family: Melastomataceae (16)(family description)

          Genus: Osbeckia (2)

            Epithet: stellata Wall. (2)

stellata => star-like, or radiating like the points of a star

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: pink

External links

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