Monochaetum

Monochaetum is a neotropical genus of shrubs and subshrubs with about 54 species.[1] It occurs in warm temperate to tropical montane habitats from Mexico and Central America to the South American Andes of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru with one species reaching the Guayana Highlands of Venezuela and Guyana.[2]

Monochaetum
Monochaetum lineatum
Monochaetum floribundum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Melastomataceae
Genus: Monochaetum
Naudin
Species

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Monochaetum is characterized by its tetramerous flowers, prevailingly dimorphic stamens with dorsally appendiculate anthers, capsular fruits that are free from the hypanthium, and cochleate seeds.[3]

Selected species
  • Monochaetum alpestre Naudin
  • Monochaetum amabile Almeda
  • Monochaetum amistadense Almeda
  • Monochaetum bonplandii (Humb. & Bonpl.) Naudin
  • Monochaetum brachyurum Naudin
  • Monochaetum calcarutum (DC.) Triana
  • Monochaetum candollei Cogn.
  • Monochaetum compactum Almeda
  • Monochaetum cordatum Almeda
  • Monochaetum coronatum Gleason
  • Monochaetum deppeanum (Schltdl. & Cham.) Naudin
  • Monochaetum dicranantherum Naudin
  • Monochaetum discolor H. Karst. ex Triana
  • Monochaetum exaltatum Almeda
  • Monochaetum floribundum (Schltdl.) Naudin
  • Monochaetum glanduliferum Triana
  • Monochaetum gleasonianum Wurdack
  • Monochaetum hartwegianum Naudin
  • Monochaetum hirtum (H. Karst.) Triana ex Cogn.
  • Monochaetum humboldtianum Kunth ex Walp.
  • Monochaetum jahnii Pittier
  • Monochaetum latifolium Naudin
  • Monochaetum linearifolium Almeda
  • Monochaetum lineatum (D. Don) Naudin
  • Monochaetum macrantherum Gleason
  • Monochaetum mariae Wurdack
  • Monochaetum meridense Naudin
  • Monochaetum multiflorum (Bonpl.) Naudin
  • Monochaetum myrtoideum Naudin
  • Monochaetum neglectum Almeda
  • Monochaetum pauciflorum Triana
  • Monochaetum polyneuron Triana
  • Monochaetum pulchrum Decne.
  • Monochaetum rodriguezii Wurdack
  • Monochaetum rubescens Gleason
  • Monochaetum stellulatum Naudin
  • Monochaetum subditivum J.F. Macbr.
  • Monochaetum subglabrum Gleason
  • Monochaetum tachirense Wurdack
  • Monochaetum talamancense Almeda
  • Monochaetum tenellum Naudin
  • Monochaetum trichophyllum Almeda
  • Monochaetum uberrimum Sandwith
  • Monochaetum vestitum Almeda, Al. Rodr. & Garita
  • Monochaetum villosum Gleason
  • Monochaetum vulcanicum Cogn.

References
  1. "Monochaetum (DC.) Naudin | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  2. Almeda, Frank (Winter 1978). "Systematics of the Genus Monochaetum (Melastomataceae) in Mexico and Central America". University of California Publications in Botany. 75 (4): 402. doi:10.2307/2418751. JSTOR 2418751.
  3. Almeda, Frank (2009). Davidse, G.; Sousa-Sanchez, M.; Knapp, S.; Chiang, F. (eds.). "Melastomataceae". Flora Mesoamericana. 4: 164 − 338.

Melastomataceae of the World

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