taxonID	type	description	language	source
9C364FE8C9E651018F6F216089BDB8D6.taxon	description	Description. Perennial shrubs, 0.3 - 1.5 m tall. Twigs nearly 4 - angled to subterete in the younger parts and terete in the old parts, densely covered with appressed to suberect strigose with scales. Leaf blades ovate to elliptic, papery, 3.3 - 4.8 x 6 - 9.5 cm, base broadly cuneate to rounded or subcordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, palmately 7 - nerved (the marginal nerves often inconspicuous), adaxially densely strigose, abaxially densely puberulous, strigose along veins; petioles 1.4 - 2.0 cm, densely strigose with scales. Inflorescences subcapitate corymbose, terminal, 3 - 5 - flowered, with 2 leaf-like bracts at base. Pedicels 8 - 12 mm, densely strigose with scales; bracteoles 2, opposite, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, 6 - 13 mm, abaxially densely strigose, margin ciliate. Hypanthia 7 - 12 mm, densely appressed-strigose with scales, margin fimbriate. Sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, densely strigose and pubescent on both sides and along the margin. Petals 5, occasionally 6, white, obovate, ca. 27 x 18 mm, apex rounded. Stamens 10, dimorphic, longer stamens with anthers linear, curved, ca. 9 mm, filaments ca. 10 mm, joined by a connective ca. 9 mm, curved, spur bifid ca. 2 mm, shorter stamens with anthers ca. 8 mm, 2 - tuberculate at base, filaments ca. 7 mm, without prolonged connective. Ovary half-inferior, campanulate, with a ring of bristles at apex. Capsule dry, urceolate, apically dehiscent, 9 - 16 x 7 - 10 mm, densely squamose strigose. Seeds numerous, minute, cochleate. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct.	en	Zhang, Xinjian, Dai, Jin-Hong, Liu, Xiaozhou, Li, Zihua, Lee, Shiou Yih, Zhou, Renchao, Tan, Guangwen (2020): Lectotypification of the name Melastoma candidum f. albiflorum and its taxonomic status. PhytoKeys 146: 47-52, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.146.49929, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.146.49929
9C364FE8C9E651018F6F216089BDB8D6.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. The white-flowered form of M. candidum was first reported only from Hsinchu Hsien and Ilan Hsien (Taiwan). This form has also been reported to occur in the Ryukyu Island (Hatusima and Amano 1994), but without exact specimen information. The individuals in Fujian, China represent the first known occurrence of this form outside of Taiwan Island (Fig. 2). It occurs only in lowland evergreen forest margins at an elevation of approximately 150 - 300 in Pinghe County, Fujian. They occur in evergreen forests dominated by Blechnum orientale, Dicranopteris pedata, Miscanthus floridulus and Rhodomyrtus tomentosa.	en	Zhang, Xinjian, Dai, Jin-Hong, Liu, Xiaozhou, Li, Zihua, Lee, Shiou Yih, Zhou, Renchao, Tan, Guangwen (2020): Lectotypification of the name Melastoma candidum f. albiflorum and its taxonomic status. PhytoKeys 146: 47-52, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.146.49929, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.146.49929
