Melastoma malabathricum, D. Boufford 44148--China. Yunnan. Along G213. 4 May 2018. DSC02084 (170).JPG
Native to 38 botanical countries across Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, and Pacific; introduced into Cuba, Florida, Hawaii, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mauritius, Trinidad-Tobago (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 2 countries.
Location
China, Yunnan, Jinghong Xian. (Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Jinghong)
22.437778, 101.020278
Location Remarks
Jinghong-shi. Xishuangbanna Daizuzi-Zhizhou; northeast of Dadugang-Xiang and between Dadugang-Xiang and Puwen-zhen along route G213. Mixed broadleaved evergreen and deciduous forest with mixed Fagaceae (Castanopsis and Lithocarpus) and Lauraceae with Engelhardtia and several genera of Fabaceae. 965-1200 m. elev.
Collectors
David E. Boufford, Sharon R. Christoph, Christopher Davidson, Xin-Han Huang, Zhuo Zhou
Notes
Shrub 2 m.
Location
Malaysia, Sabah (Telupid)
5.736551, 117.179941
Location Remarks
Coordinates are the median GPS position of 142 specimen photograph(s) taken 2012-04-08 (90% of them within NaN km of it). Split from the legacy location "Beaufort" (681cfa54-e336-390d-b078-0f7211d55b7b) or "Kuching" (9135d8cb-aef2-388f-8be6-5bc86bb71097), which carried events from many places; not otherwise described.
Collectors
Sven Buerki, Martin W. Callmander, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Postar Miun, Jeisin Jumian, Nur Adillah binti Mohd
Notes
Shrub 2 m.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Myrtales
Family
Melastomataceae
Genus
Melastoma
Specific Epithet
malabathricum
Authorship
L.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.5
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.0
Global rank
#305,006 of 335,497
Top 91%
Extinction probability
9%
