Tibouchina barbigera
Original botanical illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Tibouchina
Species:
T. barbigera
Binomial name
Tibouchina barbigera
(Naudin) Baill.[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Lasiandra barbigera Naudin
  • Pleroma barbigerum (Naudin) Triana

Tibouchina barbigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native from east Bolivia to Brazil.[1] It is a small shrub. It was first described by Naudin in 1850 as Lasiandra barbigera[2] and transferred to Tibouchina by Henri Ernest Baillon in 1877.[3] The type specimen is kept in the herbarium at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.[4] A small shrub, T. barbigera is the host to a number of gall-inducing moths.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tibouchina barbigera (Naudin) Baill.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2022-05-03
  2. ↑ "Lasiandra barbigera Naudin", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2022-05-03
  3. ↑ "Tibouchina barbigera Baill.", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2022-05-03
  4. ↑ "Tibouchina barbigera Baill.", Tropicos, retrieved 2017-03-21
  5. ↑ Becker, Vitor O.; Adamski, David (2008), "Three new cecidogenous Palaeomystella Fletcher (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae, Momphinae) associated with Melastomataceae in Brazil", Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 52 (4): 647–657, doi:10.1590/s0085-56262008000400017


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