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Miconia calvescens

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Internal ID UUID6440484584ffc270391707
Scientific name Miconia calvescens
Authority DC.
First published in Prodr. 3: 185 (1828)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melastoma mandioccanum Raddi Melast. Bras. 24 (t. VI, fig. 1). 1828 Mem. Mat. Fis. Soc. Ital. Sci. Modena, Pt. Mem. Fis. 20(1): 132. 1829
Melastoma mandioccana Raddi Mem. Soc. Ital. Moden. xx. (1829) 132.
Cyanophyllum magnificum T.Moore Natl. Gard. Alman. 100. 1858
Miconia magnifica Triana Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28: 131 (1871 publ. 1872)
Miconia velutina L.Linden & Rodigas Ill. Hort. 41: 331, pl. 21 (1894)
Miconia arborea Pav. ex Triana Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28: 108 (1871 publ. 1872)
Acinodendron arboreum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 950 (1891)
Melastoma arboreum Vell. Fl. Flumin. : 182 (1829)
Miconia magnifica var. velutina Rodigas Ill. Hort. 41: 332 (1894)
Cyanophyllum marmoreum Linden ex Ender Gartenflora 24: 360 (1875)
Cyanophyllum spectandum Linden Cat. Pl. Exot. 22-23: 4 (1869)
Melastoma calvescens Schrank & Mart. ex DC. Prodr. 3: 185 (1828)
Cyanophyllum speciosum W.Bull ex J.Dix Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 1: 631 (1861)
Cyanophyllum magnificum var. triangulare Veitch ex J.Dix Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 2: 376 (1862)

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Language Common/alternative name
English velvet tree
English purple plague
English velvet leaf
Czech širál olysalý
Japanese オオバノボタン
Chinese 米氏野牡丹

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Pacific
    • North-central Pacific
      • Hawaii
    • South-central Pacific
      • Marquesas
      • Society Islands
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Jamaica
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Paraguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001078818
USDA Plants MICA20
Tropicos 20300144
INPN 447324
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326247-2
The Plant List tro-20300144
Open Tree Of Life 132253
Observations.org 338951
NCBI Taxonomy 458135
Nature Serve 2.153336
IUCN Red List 49278524
IPNI 326247-2
iNaturalist 48888
GBIF 3188585
Freebase /m/07yqcj
EPPO MICCA
Elurikkus 373891
USDA GRIN 409651
Wikipedia Miconia_calvescens

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Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Underexplored and growing economic costs of invasive alien trees Fernandez RD, Haubrock PJ, Cuthbert RN, Heringer G, Kourantidou M, Hudgins EJ, Angulo E, Diagne CA, Courchamp F, Nuñez MA Sci Rep 02-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10238485
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35802-4
PMID:37268662
Four Most Pathogenic Superfamilies of Insect Pests of Suborder Sternorrhyncha: Invisible Superplunderers of Plant Vitality Oberemok VV, Gal’chinsky NV, Useinov RZ, Novikov IA, Puzanova YV, Filatov RI, Kouakou NJ, Kouame KF, Kra KD, Laikova KV Insects 13-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10231085
doi:10.3390/insects14050462
PMID:37233090
Comparing the Performance of CMCC-BioClimInd and WorldClim Datasets in Predicting Global Invasive Plant Distributions Zhang F, Wang C, Zhang C, Wan J Biology (Basel) 26-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10215630
doi:10.3390/biology12050652
PMID:37237466
Metabarcoding and Metabolomics Reveal the Effect of the Invasive Alien Tree Miconia calvescens DC. on Soil Diversity on the Tropical Island of Mo’orea (French Polynesia) Clerissi C, Chaïb S, Raviglione D, Espiau B, Bertrand C, Meyer JY Microorganisms 24-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10144827
doi:10.3390/microorganisms11040832
PMID:37110253
Making a greener planet: nature documentaries promote plant awareness Kacprzyk J, Clune S, Clark C, Kane A Ann Bot 16-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9992931
doi:10.1093/aob/mcac149
PMID:36791803
The immatures of the New World treehopper tribes Acutalini Fowler and Micrutalini Haupt (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae) McKamey SH, Wallner AM Zookeys 19-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9836728
doi:10.3897/zookeys.1136.90525
PMID:36762053
A Near Four-Decade Time Series Shows the Hawaiian Islands Have Been Browning Since the 1980s Madson A, Dimson M, Fortini LB, Kawelo K, Ticktin T, Keir M, Dong C, Ma Z, Beilman DW, Kay K, Ocón JP, Gallerani E, Pau S, Gillespie TW Environ Manage 22-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC10083158
doi:10.1007/s00267-022-01749-x
PMID:36414689
Genomics reveals the history of a complex plant invasion and improves the management of a biological invasion from the South African–Australian biotic exchange Byrne D, Scheben A, Scott JK, Webber BL, Batchelor KL, Severn‐Ellis AA, Gooden B, Bell KL Ecol Evol 23-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9396708
doi:10.1002/ece3.9179
PMID:36016815
Plant pathogens as introduced weed biological control agents: Could antagonistic fungi be important factors determining agent success or failure? Den Breeyen A, Lange C, Fowler SV Front Fungal Biol 26-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC10512343
doi:10.3389/ffunb.2022.959753
PMID:37746189
Using Consensus Land Cover Data to Model Global Invasive Tree Species Distributions Zhang FX, Wang CJ, Wan JZ Plants (Basel) 04-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9003423
doi:10.3390/plants11070981
PMID:35406960
Characterization of Pterotylenchus cecidogenus in Desmodium ovalifolium cover crop from oil palm plantations in central Colombia Velandia O, Mestizo Y, Medina HC, Riascos-Ortiz D, De Agudelo FV, Sarria GA J Nematol 01-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8634294
doi:10.21307/jofnem-2021-099
PMID:34881369
Scientists’ warning – The outstanding biodiversity of islands is in peril Fernández-Palacios JM, Kreft H, Irl SD, Norder S, Ah-Peng C, Borges PA, Burns KC, de Nascimento L, Meyer JY, Montes E, Drake DR Glob Ecol Conserv 01-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8556160
doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01847
PMID:34761079
An Evaluation of the Factors Affecting ‘Poacher’ Detection with Drones and the Efficacy of Machine-Learning for Detection Doull KE, Chalmers C, Fergus P, Longmore S, Piel AK, Wich SA Sensors (Basel) 13-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8232034
doi:10.3390/s21124074
PMID:34199208
Outstanding performance of an invasive alien tree Bischofia javanica relative to native tree species and implications for management of insular primary forests Abe T, Tanaka N, Shimizu Y PeerJ 23-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7382941
doi:10.7717/peerj.9573
PMID:32775053
Tradeoffs in the evolution of plant farming by ants Chomicki G, Kadereit G, Renner SS, Kiers ET Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 21-Jan-2020
PMCID:PMC7007520
doi:10.1073/pnas.1919611117
PMID:31964816

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