Miconia

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Miconia
Miconia calvescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Myrtales Family: Melastomataceae Genus: Miconia Ruiz & Pavón
Species
See text.

Miconia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The species are mostly shrubs and small to medium-sized trees up to 15 m tall.

Miconia calvescens is a highly invasive species on a number of Pacific islands, including Hawaii and Tahiti. It is often referred to as the "purple plague" or the "green cancer".

Selected species

Miconia abbreviata Miconia aequatorialis Miconia aligera Miconia alpina Miconia ascendens Miconia asplundii Miconia aspratilis Miconia ayacuchensis Miconia bailloniana Miconia barbipilis Miconia barclayana Miconia beneolens Miconia benoistii Miconia bipatrialis Miconia bolivarensis Miconia brevistylis Miconia brevitheca Miconia caelata Miconia caesariata Miconia cajanumana Miconia calignosa Miconia calophylla Miconia calvescens Miconia campii Miconia capitellata Miconia castillensis Miconia castrensis Miconia centrosperma Miconia cercophora

Miconia collayensis Miconia conformis Miconia corazonica Miconia cosangensis Miconia crebribullata Miconia cuprea Miconia cutucuensis Miconia dapsiliflora Miconia demissifolia Miconia dielsii Miconia dissimulans Miconia dodsonii Miconia espinosae Miconia explicita Miconia floccosa Miconia fosbergii Miconia fuliginosa Miconia gibba Miconia glandulistyla Miconia glyptophylla Miconia gonioclada Miconia grayana Miconia griffisii Miconia guayaquilensis Miconia hexamera Miconia hirsutivena Miconia huigrensis Miconia hylophila Miconia idiogena

Miconia imitans Miconia inanis Miconia innata Miconia jorgensenii Miconia lachnoclada Miconia laxa Miconia leandroides Miconia ledifolia Miconia littlei Miconia longisetosa Miconia lugonis Miconia macbrydeana Miconia mediocris Miconia medusa Miconia namandensis Miconia nasella Miconia nubicola Miconia oellgaardii Miconia oligantha Miconia ombrophila Miconia onaensis Miconia pailasana Miconia papillosa Miconia pastazana Miconia pausana Miconia penningtonii Miconia perelegans Miconia pernettifolia Miconia phaeochaeta

Miconia pilaloensis Miconia pisinniflora Miconia poecilantha Miconia poortmannii Miconia prietoi Miconia prominens Miconia protuberans Miconia pseudorigida Miconia reburrosa Miconia renneri Miconia rimbachii Miconia rivetii Miconia santaritensis Miconia scabra Miconia scutata Miconia seticaulis Miconia setulosa Miconia silicicola Miconia sodiroi Miconia sparrei Miconia stenophylla Miconia suborbicularis Miconia superba Miconia tephrodes Miconia tomentosa Miconia vesca Miconia villonacensis Miconia zamorensis