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Tibouchina semidecandra at Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco | | Scientific classification | | | | Genera | | See text. Photo of Tibouchina semidecandra at Strybing Arboretum, taken July 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants. ...
Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ...
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Portrait of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist. ...
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 Characteristic venation of many melastomes The family Melastomataceae (alternatively Melastomaceae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics (two thirds of the genera are from the New World tropics) comprising some 200 genera and 4500 species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Download high resolution version (600x627, 121 KB)Leaves of a melastome (Family Melastomataceae); photographed in on the Island of Hawa‘i by Eric Guinther. ...
Download high resolution version (600x627, 121 KB)Leaves of a melastome (Family Melastomataceae); photographed in on the Island of Hawa‘i by Eric Guinther. ...
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Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants. ...
The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ...
The leaves of melastomes are somewhat distinctive, being opposite, decussate, and usually with 3-7 longitudinal veins arising either from the base of the blade, plinerved (inner veins diverging above base of blade), or pinnately nerved with three or more pairs of primary veins diverging from the mid-vein at successive points above the base.
Flowers are perfect, and borne either singly or in terminal or axillary, paniculate cymes. An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. ...
A number of melastomes are regarded as invasive species once naturalized in tropical and subtropical environments outside of their normal range. Examples are Koster's curse and Miconia calvescens, but many other species are involved. Lantana Invasion of abandoned citrus plantation; Moshav Sdey Hemed, Israel; May 2, 2006 The term invasive species refers to a subset of those species defined as introduced species or non-indigenous species. ...
Binomial name Clidemia hirta (L.) D. Don Clidemia hirta, commonly called soapbush or Kosters Curse, is a perennial shrub. ...
Binomial name Miconia calvescens DC The flowering plant Miconia calvescens is known by the common names miconia, bush currant, and velvet tree. ...
Genera Species See text Acanthella is a genus of two species in the family Melastomataceae, native to tropical South America. ...
Families Fritillariidae Kowalevskiidae Oikopleuridae The Appendicularia or Larvacea are a group of free-swimming pelagic urochordates found throughout the worlds oceans. ...
Blastus was a servant of King Herod (Acts 12:20), and a mediator for the Sidonians and Tyrians. ...
Clidemia is a plant genus from the Melastomataceae family with about 450 species. ...
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Binomial name Heterotis niloticus (Cuvier, 1829) The African Arowana (Heterotis niloticus) is one of seven members of the arowana family that is rarely imported for the home aquarist. ...
The Medinilla (Medinilla magnifica in the Family Melastomataceae) is a bush that blooms with light purple to vivid pink flowers. ...
Australian coastal plant Melastoma malabathricum subsp. ...
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Species about 350 Tibouchina is a genus of about 350 species of neotropical plants in the family Melastomataceae. ...
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