Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 390 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xliv [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(30): 161 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 292-293 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Melastoma denticulatum Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melastoma polyanthum Blume legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melastoma novae-hollandiae Naudin legitimate

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 147 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1032-1033 [secondary reference]

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: 79-80 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 133 [secondary reference]

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

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 133

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

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 390

Meyer, K. (2001), Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae). Blumea 46(2): 364 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melastoma denticulatum Labill. legitimate common name: Blue Tongue [n/a] common name: Native Lasiandra [n/a]

Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005. Cunninghamia 12(1): 98-99 [secondary reference]

common name: Banks Melastoma [n/a]

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

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xliv

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(30): 161

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 60

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by 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: 79-80

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 133

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Meyer, K. (2001), Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae). Blumea 46(2): 364

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005. Cunninghamia 12(1): 98-99

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