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Melastomastrum capitatum - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Melastomastrum capitatum - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Melastomastrum capitatum - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Melastomastrum capitatum - Branch section - Click to enlarge!

Branch section; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Melastomastrum capitatum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Warm Spring, Ikogosi, Ekiti State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 2082
Date of entry: 11.03.2013
Last update: 12.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2728)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2642)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2226)

      Order: Myrtales (80)

        Family: Melastomataceae (17)(family description)

          Genus: Melastomastrum (1)

            Epithet: capitatum (Vahl) A. Fern. & R. Fern. (3)

capitatum => head-shaped, as ahead of composite bloom

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: violet, pink

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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