Medinilla rubicunda

Medinilla rubicunda (Jack) Blume, Flora 14: 512 1831. (Syn: Medinilla emarginata Craib; Medinilla erythrophylla Wall. ex Lindl.; Medinilla fuligineoglandulifera C. Chen; Medinilla hainanensis Merr. & Chun; Medinilla rubicunda var. tibetica C. Chen; Medinilla yunnanensis H.L. Li; Melastoma erythrophylla Wall.;  Melastoma rubicundum Jack);
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S-Tibet, China (Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan), Bhutan, India (Darjeeling, Sikkim, Bengal Duars, Assam), Nepal, N-Burma, Java, Thailand, Myanmar [Burma] (Taninthayi) as per Catalogue of Life;
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MS Dec.2016/17 Medinilla erythrophylla ? for confirmation : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)

Location : Sairep, Mizoram
Date : 29-11-2016
Habit Epiphytic undershrub
Habitat : Wild

The identification looks correct. It is M. erythrophylla.

Accepted name of Medinnilla erythrophylla is M.rubicunda (Jack) Blume

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MS,Oct.,2021/19 Medinilla sp. for id.: 2 images.
Location : Ailawng

Date : 04-08-2018
Habit : Epiphytic shrub
Habitat : Wild

You have earlier posted it and it is placed at Medinilla rubicunda (Jack) Blume
Is there any other species in this genus over there?
To me appears OK as per ResearchGate & Semantic scholar and POWO specimen.

Any other species reported from there ? If so, any keys?

So there seems to be only one species.
So it is Medinilla rubicunda (Jack) Blume (syn: Medinnilla erythrophylla)

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Updates to the eFlora of India regarding Cucurbitaceae and Melastomataceae:
The first update is that Medinilla erythrophylla Wall. ex Lindl. trom the Himalayan foothills is no longer considered a synonym of M. rubicunda, which a Malaysian species.
This has been shown in the dissertation a 2024 dissertation that is freely available online:
Systematics, Biogeography, and Floral Trait Evolution of the Plant Genus, Medinilla (Melastomataceae) John Peter Quakenbush Western Michigan University
I will send you more updates tomorrow. Just now, I am working on the Melastomataceae and Cucurbitaceae for the Flora of Nepal, which of course has much overlap with northern India.

 

 

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References:
Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  Tropicos  IPNI  GBIF  Flora of China  Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal  IBIS Flora Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Specimen)  FRPS  Plant illustrations  Forest Plants of Eastern India By Amal Bhusan Chaudhuri (1986) Paxton’s Magazine of Botany (1843)  Edwards’ Botanical Register (1838)