Sagraea

	Sagraea ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris (8 April 179823 May 1871) was a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (Spanish for "The Future"). Biography Ramón de la Sag ... (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: '' Sagraea abbottii'' '' Sagraea barahonensis'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Abbottii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris (8 April 179823 May 1871) was a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (Spanish for "The Future"). Biography Ramón de la Sag ... (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: '' Sagraea abbottii'' '' Sagraea barahonensis'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Barahonensis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra Ramón Dionis ...'' '' Sagraea barahonensis'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Tax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Capillaris ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Fuertesii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Gracilis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Oligantha ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii'' ''Sagraea gracilis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Penninervis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii'' ''Sagraea gracilis'' ''Sagraea oligantha ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonbar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Polystachya ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii'' ''Sagraea gracilis'' ''Sagraea oligantha'' ''Sagraea penninervis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonbar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ramón De La Sagra Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris (8 April 179823 May 1871) was a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (Spanish for "The Future"). Biography Ramón de la Sagra was born on 8 April 1798 in A Coruña, a province of Spain. His father Lorenzo Martínez de la Sagra came from a noble merchant family, which became wealthy through trade with the Spanish colonies in America. His mother was Antonia Rodríguez Perís, who met his father in Saint Augustine. His brother migrated to Uruguay to start a business there, when Sagra was three years old. Ramón de la Sagra studied physics for one year in Nautical School of A Coruña. Afterwards he attended the military college of Santiago de Compostela until reaching adulthood. Afterwards he joined the local university, where he studied anatomy, medicine, mathematics and pharmaceuticals. There he started spreading liberal ideas. For these actions the Inquisition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Melastomataceae Melastomataceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics (two-thirds of the genera are from the New World tropics) comprising c. 175 genera and c. 5115 known species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Description The leaves of melastomes are somewhat distinctive, being opposite, decussate, and usually with 3-7 longitudinal veins arising either from the base of the blade, plinerved (inner veins diverging above base of blade), or pinnately nerved with three or more pairs of primary veins diverging from the mid-vein at successive points above the base. Flowers are perfect, and borne either singly or in terminal or axillary, paniculate cymes. Ecology A number of melastomes are regarded as invasive species once naturalized in tropical and subtropical environments outside their normal range. Examples are Koster's curse (''Clidemia hirta''), '' Pleroma semidecandrum'' and ''Miconia calvescens'', but many other specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flowering Plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all synonyms of one another: they are ''synonymous''. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be replaced by another in a sentence without changing its meaning. Words are considered synonymous in only one particular sense: for example, ''long'' and ''extended'' in the context ''long time'' or ''extended time'' are synonymous, but ''long'' cannot be used in the phrase ''extended family''. Synonyms with exactly the same meaning share a seme or denotational sememe, whereas those with inexactly similar meanings share a broader denotational or connotational sememe and thus overlap within a semantic field. The former are sometimes called cognitive synonyms and the latter, near-synonyms, plesionyms or poecilonyms. Lexicograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Sagraea ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris (8 April 179823 May 1871) was a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (Spanish for "The Future"). Biography Ramón de la Sag ... (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: '' Sagraea abbottii'' '' Sagraea barahonensis'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Abbottii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris (8 April 179823 May 1871) was a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (Spanish for "The Future"). Biography Ramón de la Sag ... (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: '' Sagraea abbottii'' '' Sagraea barahonensis'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Barahonensis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra Ramón Dionis ...'' '' Sagraea barahonensis'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Tax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Capillaris ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea capillaris'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Fuertesii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea fuertesii'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Gracilis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea gracilis'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Oligantha ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii'' ''Sagraea gracilis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea oligantha'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Penninervis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii'' ''Sagraea gracilis'' ''Sagraea oligantha ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea penninervis'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonbar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sagraea Polystachya ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (which is Spanish for "The Future"). It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.3 on page 170 in 1828. Formerly known species According to Kew: ''Sagraea abbottii'' ''Sagraea barahonensis'' ''Sagraea capillaris'' ''Sagraea fuertesii'' ''Sagraea gracilis'' ''Sagraea oligantha'' ''Sagraea penninervis ''Sagraea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae. It is now listed as a synonym of Miconia Its native range is the Caribbean. The genus name of ''Sagraea'' was in honour of Ramón de la Sagra (1798–1871), a ...'' '' Sagraea polystachya'' References {{Taxonbar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ramón De La Sagra Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra y Peris (8 April 179823 May 1871) was a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, ''El Porvenir'' (Spanish for "The Future"). Biography Ramón de la Sagra was born on 8 April 1798 in A Coruña, a province of Spain. His father Lorenzo Martínez de la Sagra came from a noble merchant family, which became wealthy through trade with the Spanish colonies in America. His mother was Antonia Rodríguez Perís, who met his father in Saint Augustine. His brother migrated to Uruguay to start a business there, when Sagra was three years old. Ramón de la Sagra studied physics for one year in Nautical School of A Coruña. Afterwards he attended the military college of Santiago de Compostela until reaching adulthood. Afterwards he joined the local university, where he studied anatomy, medicine, mathematics and pharmaceuticals. There he started spreading liberal ideas. For these actions the Inquisition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Melastomataceae Melastomataceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics (two-thirds of the genera are from the New World tropics) comprising c. 175 genera and c. 5115 known species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Description The leaves of melastomes are somewhat distinctive, being opposite, decussate, and usually with 3-7 longitudinal veins arising either from the base of the blade, plinerved (inner veins diverging above base of blade), or pinnately nerved with three or more pairs of primary veins diverging from the mid-vein at successive points above the base. Flowers are perfect, and borne either singly or in terminal or axillary, paniculate cymes. Ecology A number of melastomes are regarded as invasive species once naturalized in tropical and subtropical environments outside their normal range. Examples are Koster's curse (''Clidemia hirta''), '' Pleroma semidecandrum'' and ''Miconia calvescens'', but many other specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flowering Plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all synonyms of one another: they are ''synonymous''. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be replaced by another in a sentence without changing its meaning. Words are considered synonymous in only one particular sense: for example, ''long'' and ''extended'' in the context ''long time'' or ''extended time'' are synonymous, but ''long'' cannot be used in the phrase ''extended family''. Synonyms with exactly the same meaning share a seme or denotational sememe, whereas those with inexactly similar meanings share a broader denotational or connotational sememe and thus overlap within a semantic field. The former are sometimes called cognitive synonyms and the latter, near-synonyms, plesionyms or poecilonyms. Lexicograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]