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Internal ID UUID644048b24a1c1803718673
Scientific name Tibouchina aspera
Authority Aubl.
First published in Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 446, t. 177 (1775)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Rhexia aspera Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4 , 2: 304 (1799)
Lasiandra tibuchina Naudin Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. , sér. 3, 13: 153 (1850)
Melastoma tibouchina Desr. Encycl. 4: 49 (1797)
Melastoma aromaticum Vahl Eclog. Amer. 1: 41 (1797)
Pleroma tibouchinum Triana Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28: 45 (1871 publ. 1872)

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Language Common/alternative name
Chinese 银毛蒂牡花
Chinese 银毛野牡丹

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Tibouchina aspera var. aspera Unknown
Tibouchina aspera var. asperrima Cogn. Fl. Bras. 14(3): 375 (1885)
Tibouchina aspera var. poeppigii Cogn. Fl. Bras. 14(3): 375 (1885)

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  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001080638
Tropicos 20302195
INPN 734234
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:576222-1
The Plant List tro-20302195
Open Tree Of Life 976793
NCBI Taxonomy 596820
IUCN Red List 151946713
IPNI 576222-1
iNaturalist 465980
GBIF 3864198
USDA GRIN 418717
Wikipedia Tibouchina_aspera

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A two‐tier bioinformatic pipeline to develop probes for target capture of nuclear loci with applications in Melastomataceae Jantzen JR, Amarasinghe P, Folk RA, Reginato M, Michelangeli FA, Soltis DE, Cellinese N, Soltis PS Appl Plant Sci 09-May-2020
PMCID:PMC7249273
doi:10.1002/aps3.11345
PMID:32477841

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