Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 389 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 184 [secondary reference]

Heward, R. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1841), Biographical sketch of the late Allan Cunningham. The Journal of Botany 4: 249 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 292 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 60 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 214 [secondary reference]

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 153 [secondary reference]

• Type: Melastoma malabathricum L.

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. Jnr (1943), A contribution to the knowledge of the Melastomataceae occuring in the Malay Archipelago especially in the Netherlands East Indies: 55-56 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 145 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Melastomataceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 219 [secondary reference]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae. Flora of Australia 18: 247-248 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Melastomataceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 198 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Melastomataceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 548 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 140 [secondary reference]

Meyer, K. (2001), Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae). Blumea 46(2): 353 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Otanthera Blume legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Melastomataceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 232 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 282 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 534 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Otanthera Blume legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Otanthera Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Othanthera Korth. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Otanthera Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Othanthera Korth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Melastoma sect. Eumelastoma Bakh.f. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Otanthera Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Othanthera Korth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Melastoma sect. Eumelastoma Bakh.f. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW

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