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Medinilla miniata; photograph Lisa Wiencek Gerbec, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYLisa Wiencek Gerbec, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Medinilla miniata Merr.

Melastomataceae · Philippines

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About the genus · Medinilla

Medinilla is a large paleotropical genus of about 370 species of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to tropical regions of the Old World from Africa east through southeast Asia to Australia and the western Pacific Ocean. The genus was named after José de Medinilla y Pineda, governor of the Mariana Islands in 1820.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Medinilla", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativePhilippines · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Other Medinilla 23 in the reference

Medinilla alata Melastomataceae Medinilla alpestris Melastomataceae Medinilla astronioides Medinilla astronioides Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Peter QuakenbushMedinilla balls-headleyi Medinilla balls-headleyi Daintree medinilla Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve Fitzgerald Medinilla banahaensis Melastomataceae Medinilla basaltarum Melastomataceae Medinilla crassata Medinilla crassata Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, M108tMedinilla cumingii Medinilla cumingii Chandelier tree Photo: CC BY, Nico CarlMedinilla eximia Medinilla eximia Melastomataceae Photo: CC0, Светлана ЦараховаMedinilla fengii Medinilla fengii Melastomataceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMedinilla formosana Medinilla formosana Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Emily ChangMedinilla hayatana Medinilla hayatana Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 宜蘭第一公民 all 24 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Melastomataceae
Described by
Merr.
Native to
Philippines
Wild records
2 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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