Memecylon parvifolium

Species of flowering plant

Memecylon parvifolium
Memecylon parvifolium in Hakgale Botanical Garden
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Memecylon
Species:
M. parvifolium
Binomial name
Memecylon parvifolium

Memecylon parvifolium is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Leaves

Broadly obovate, base tapering, obtuse to rounded apex, veins invisible; dark green, shiny above; young flush reddish.

Trunk

Bark - gray, finely cracked; Wood - yellow, hard, heavy; twigs quadrangular.

Flowers

White to pinkish red, few, small, nearly sessile.

Fruits

Black berry, tipped with calyx.

Ecology

Montane forest subcanopy.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Memecylon parvifolium.
  • http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/ifn-77723
  • http://cabdirect.org/abstracts/20093323585.html;jsessionid=72958E6E0398B3FD0CC334D82C23479D
  • http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/250989
Taxon identifiers
Memecylon parvifolium
  • Wikidata: Q17566012
  • Wikispecies: Memecylon parvifolium
  • BOLD: 1098456
  • CoL: 3ZP26
  • GBIF: 3864782
  • iNaturalist: 1235660
  • IPNI: 571747-1
  • NCBI: 1428979
  • Open Tree of Life: 3939481
  • POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:571747-1
  • WFO: wfo-0000160867


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