Meriania is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae. There are about 93 species distributed from Mexico to Brazil and the Antilles.[1]
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| Meriania nobilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Melastomataceae |
| Genus: | Meriania Sw. |
Plants of this genus are woody shrubs or trees with large flowers and capsules.[1] The genus was named in honor of naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian.[2]
Species include:
- Meriania acostae Wurdack
- Meriania almedae Wurdack
- Meriania ampla Wurdack
- Meriania amplexicaulis Wurdack
- Meriania barbosae[1]
- Meriania campii Wurdack
- Meriania costata Wurdack
- Meriania crassiramis (Naudin) Wurdack
- Meriania cuneifolia Gleason
- Meriania denticulata (Gleason) Wurdack
- Meriania drakei (Cogn.) Wurdack
- Meriania fantastica[1]
- Meriania franciscana[3]
- Meriania furvanthera Wurdack
- Meriania grandiflora (Standl.) Almeda
- Meriania kirkbridei Wurdack
- Meriania leucantha (Sw.) Sw.
- Meriania loxensis Gleason
- Meriania maguirei Wurdack
- Meriania panamensis Woods. & Schery
- Meriania pastazana Wurdack
- Meriania peltata L.Uribe
- Meriania pichinchensis Wurdack
- Meriania rigida (Benth.) Triana
- Meriania stellata (Gleason) Wurdack
- Meriania versicolor L.Uribe
References edit
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- ^ a b c d Mendoza-Cifuentes, H., Alvear, M., & Almeda, F. (2014). Novelties in Meriania (Melastomataceae: Merianieae) from Andean rainforests of Colombia. Phytotaxa, 178(1), 23-32.
- ^ Swartz, Olof; Palmii, Jo Jacobi; Son, B. White and (1797). Flora Indiae Occidentalis :aucta atque illustrata sive descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum / Olavi Swartz. Vol. v. 2. Erlangae [Erlangen, Germany]: Jo. Jacobi Palmii. p. 824.
- ^ (in Spanish) Ulloa, C. U., & Homeier, J. (2008, July). Meriania franciscana (Melastomataceae), una especie nueva de los Andes de Ecuador. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 65(2) 383-387.
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