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Meriania

Meriania nobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Melastomataceae
Genus:	Meriania Sw.

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]

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

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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.

Taxon identifiers
Meriania	Wikidata: Q5428678 Wikispecies: Meriania BOLD: 148713 CoL: 5P8S EoL: 1329907 FNA: 120270 GBIF: 3231526 GRIN: 7472 iNaturalist: 131867 IPNI: 328245-2 IRMNG: 1361538 NCBI: 119892 Open Tree of Life: 76955 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328245-2 Tropicos: 40017308 WFO: wfo-4000023781

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