Desrousseaux, L.A.J. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (9 February 1797), Melastome; Melastoma. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 4(1): 45 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cette belle espèce croît naturellement dans le Brésil, aux environs de Rio Janeiro. Elle se trouve dans l'Herbier de Commerson. (v. s. In Herb. D. de Jussieu)."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Sw. (1788).

Persoon, C.H. (1805), Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 1: 476 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Melastoma clavatum Pers. legitimate

Wurdack, J.J. (4 October 1960), Certamen Melastomataceis VI. Phytologia 7(5): 233 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tibouchina clavata (Pers.) Wurdack legitimate

Guimarães, P.J.F., Michelangeli, F.A., Sosa, K. & Santiago, J.R. (October 2019), Systematics of Tibouchina and allies (Melastomataceae: Melastomateae): A new taxonomic classification. Taxon 68(5): 974 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Holotype: BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: de la mont das capuim, Jul 1767, Commerson, P. 224< (P barcode P00678364! [F negative F0BN038242!]; isotypes: P barcodes P00708848! & P00708849 [fragment]!)."

Guimarães, P.J.F., Michelangeli, F.A., Sosa, K. & Santiago, J.R. (October 2019), Systematics of Tibouchina and allies (Melastomataceae: Melastomateae): A new taxonomic classification. Taxon 68(5): 974 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pleroma clavatum (Pers.) P.J.F.Guim. & Michelang. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pleroma clavatum (Pers.) P.J.F.Guim. & Michelang. legitimate

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