Memecylon pauciflorum Blume

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Melastomataceae > Memecylon

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, 1-6 m tall, many-branched. Branches 4-sided, glabrous. Petiole 1-2(-3) mm; leaf blade brownish yellow-green when dry, elliptic, broadly elliptic, or rhomboid-oblong, 2.5-3(-5) × 1-1.5(-3) cm, stiffly papery to subleathery, both surfaces glabrous and glossy, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse to acute and with an apiculate or retuse tip. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, to 1 cm; peduncle very short, glabrous; bracts lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. Pedicel 1-2 mm, glabrous. Hypanthium lobes lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm, apex acuminate. Petals triangular-ovate, 2.5-3 × ca. 2 mm, apex acuminate. Stamens ca. 3 mm; filaments ca. 2 mm; anthers and conic connective ca. 1 mm, with a small concave abaxial gland. Fruit a baccate drupe, globular, 5-6 mm in diam., minutely angular when young but later inconspicuously angular, apex with persistent calyx lobes. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Nov.
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Shrub or small tree to 5 m high. Leaves ovate or narrowly ovate, or sometimes obovate, rarely elliptic, lateral veins scarcely or not visible; lamina c. 3–7 cm long and 1–3 cm wide. Inflorescence generally cymose, sometimes compressed and appearing umbellate, to 8-flowered, primary peduncle 1–6 mm, rarely 9 mm, long, glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Hypanthium campanulate to turbinate, c. 1.5 mm long and 1.5 mm diam. Calyx lobes reduced to small but distinct teeth. Petals white or blue. Stamens: anthers dolabriform, with a bilobed dorsal appendage and a distinct dorsal gland. Fruit globose or depressed globose, to 6 mm long and 8 mm diam., with a narrow but relatively distinct corona, green becoming blue or black.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m high. The leaves are oval. They are 3 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They are shiny and light green. They have prominent midrib. The flowers are white or blue. The fruit is a green berry. It turns blue or black when ripe.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Environment

Grows in a variety of vegetation types, including rainforest, monsoon forest, open forest and woodland, and littoral forest and woodland, often near the coast, and usually at altitudes less than 200 m.
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Forests and mountain slopes. Lowland Dipterocarp forest and evergreen forest, often on limestone; a shrub in beach forests on sandy soils and drier evergreen forests; at elevations up to 600 metres.
It is a tropical plant. It grows near the coast. It can be in rainforest or open woodland.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses charcoal wood
Edible fruits
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings.
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Distribution

Memecylon pauciflorum world distribution map, present in Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:571748-1
WFO ID wfo-0001083264
COL ID 3ZP27
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Synonyms

Memecylon australe Memecylon pulchellum Memecylon pauciflorum