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Internal ID UUID644048c36233e393335011
Scientific name Miconia argentea
Authority DC.
First published in Prodr. 3: 182 (1828)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melastoma argenteum Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. : 70 (1788)
Cremanium compressum Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulphur : 96 (1844)
Miconia procera Naudin Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. , sér. 3, 16: 245 (1851)
Miconia longistyla Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 4: 123 (1854)
Acinodendron argenteum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 950 (1891)

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001081076
Tropicos 20302666
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:572109-1
The Plant List tro-20302666
Open Tree Of Life 601405
NCBI Taxonomy 263291
IUCN Red List 144254950
IPNI 572109-1
iNaturalist 209949
GBIF 3859926
EOL 5430943
USDA GRIN 461737

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Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Mexican traditional medicines for women’s reproductive health Cabada-Aguirre P, López López AM, Mendoza KC, Garay Buenrostro KD, Luna-Vital DA, Mahady GB Sci Rep 16-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9935858
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29921-1
PMID:36797354
An approach for evaluating the bioavailability and risk assessment of potentially toxic elements using edible and inedible plants—the Remance (Panama) mining area as a model González-Valoys AC, Jiménez Salgado JU, Rodríguez R, Monteza-Destro T, Vargas-Lombardo M, García-Noguero EM, Esbrí JM, Jiménez-Ballesta R, García-Navarro FJ, Higueras P Environ Geochem Health 22-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC9867682
doi:10.1007/s10653-021-01086-8
PMID:34677729
Anti-trypanosomal screening of Salvadoran flora Castillo UG, Komatsu A, Martínez ML, Menjívar J, Núñez MJ, Uekusa Y, Narukawa Y, Kiuchi F, Nakajima-Shimada J J Nat Med 16-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8732892
doi:10.1007/s11418-021-01562-6
PMID:34529189
It’s a moth! It’s a butterfly! It’s the complete mitochondrial genome of the American moth-butterfly Macrosoma conifera (Warren, 1897) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hedylidae)! McCullagh BS, Alexiuk MR, Payment JE, Hamilton RV, Lalonde MM, Marcus JM Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 27-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7594742
doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1831991
PMID:33367038
Effects of variation in forest fragment habitat on black howler monkey demography in the unprotected landscape around Palenque National Park, Mexico Klass K, Van Belle S, Campos-Villanueva A, Mercado Malabet F, Estrada A PeerJ 10-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7425640
doi:10.7717/peerj.9694
PMID:32864215
Bioactivity Profiling of Plant Biodiversity of Panama by High Throughput Screening Roy A, McDonald P, Timmermann BN, Gupta M, Chaguturu R Nat Prod Commun 01-Jan-2019
PMCID:PMC6959481
doi:10.1177/1934578X1901400119
PMID:31938081
Effects of lightning on trees: A predictive model based on in situ electrical resistivity Gora EM, Bitzer PM, Burchfield JC, Schnitzer SA, Yanoviak SP Ecol Evol 12-Sep-2017
PMCID:PMC5648650
doi:10.1002/ece3.3347
PMID:29075468
Spatial patterns of an endemic Mediterranean palm recolonizing old fields Jácome‐Flores ME, Delibes M, Wiegand T, Fedriani JM Ecol Evol 09-Nov-2016
PMCID:PMC5167057
doi:10.1002/ece3.2504
PMID:28031807
Variation in the population structure between a natural and a human-modified forest for a pioneer tropical tree species not restricted to large gaps Silvestrini M, dos Santos FA Ecol Evol 25-May-2015
PMCID:PMC4475374
doi:10.1002/ece3.1528
PMID:26120431
A molecular survey concerning the origin of Cyperus esculentus (Cyperaceae, Poales): two sides of the same coin (weed vs. crop) De Castro O, Gargiulo R, Del Guacchio E, Caputo P, De Luca P Ann Bot 17-Feb-2015
PMCID:PMC4373285
doi:10.1093/aob/mcv001
PMID:25694438
Remnant Trees Affect Species Composition but Not Structure of Tropical Second-Growth Forest Sandor ME, Chazdon RL PLoS One 13-Jan-2014
PMCID:PMC3890367
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083284
PMID:24454700
Size-dependent changes in wood chemical traits: a comparison of neotropical saplings and large trees Martin AR, Thomas SC, Zhao Y AoB Plants 29-Aug-2013
PMCID:PMC4455665
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plt039
Germination Responses to Water Potential in Neotropical Pioneers Suggest Large-seeded Species Take More Risks Daws MI, Crabtree LM, Dalling JW, Mullins CE, Burslem DF Ann Bot 07-Oct-2008
PMCID:PMC2712403
doi:10.1093/aob/mcn186
PMID:18840874
Prediction of Desiccation Sensitivity in Seeds of Woody Species: A Probabilistic Model Based on Two Seed Traits and 104 Species DAWS MI, GARWOOD NC, PRITCHARD HW Ann Bot 01-Apr-2006
PMCID:PMC3291879
doi:10.1093/aob/mcl022
PMID:16464874

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