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Melastoma × intermedium; photograph Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYCheng-Te Hsu, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Melastoma × intermedium Dunn

Melastomataceae · China South-Central, Hainan +1

A hybrid: M. candidum × M. dodecandrum, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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About the genus · Melastoma

Melastoma is a genus in the family Melastomataceae. It has over 100 species distributed around Southeast Asia, India, north to Japan, south to Australia and the Pacific Islands. The number of species should probably be reduced according to some sources. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 76 of the 77 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; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast · 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).
Map marker23.893, 120.924 · in the densest population, 42 records (55% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 77 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 32 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 10 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 76 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 77 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng Zeng, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (4).

Other Melastoma 4 in the reference

Melastoma dodecandrum Melastoma dodecandrum Melastomataceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMelastoma malabathricum Melastoma malabathricum Malabar melastome Photo: CC BY, Christoph MoningMelastoma sanguineum Melastoma sanguineum Red melastome Photo: CC BY, Michael Berardozzi Melastoma scaberrimum Melastomataceae

Names & registers

GBIFIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Melastomataceae
Described by
Dunn
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast
Wild records
77 in range · 32 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
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 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 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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